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Updated Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:04 am TWN, dpa

Air New Zealand might ditch IBM over computer disaster

WELLINGTON -- Air New Zealand is threatening to ditch IBM as its main information-technology provider after a massive failure caused its computer system to collapse, delaying up to 10,000 travellers, according to an internal e-mail leaked to the media Monday. The failure knocked out the airline's computers for five hours Sunday, forcing check-in staff to write boarding passes and luggage tags by hand and preventing potential passengers from making bookings online.

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