The technology company Sabre has terminated its agreement with Russian government-owned carrier Aeroflot, crippling its ability to sell seats.

A global computer reservation system crashed on Monday night, impacting hundreds of airlines and airports around the world and causing flight cancellations for hundreds of thousands of travelers.

A computer system outage that caused flights of several major airlines to be delayed is back up and running today.

Some experts suggested that the computer problems originated when United merged its reservation system with that of Continental Airlines starting in 2010.

He found that any airline using Amadeus made it easy to edit and change someone’s reservation with just their booking reference number. No surname needed.

Cape Air CEO Daniel Wolf said the new reservations system made by Google's ITA Software will shave seconds off customer interactions, and that will make a difference for his small airline.

The new reservation system was built by ITA Software and is being used by a regional carrier in Massachusetts.