A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system.

The problem occurs because American Airlines’ systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.

The BBC witnessed the latest mix-up, which she and the cabin crew were able to laugh off.

“It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady!” she said.

But the centenarian says she would like the glitch to be fixed as it has caused her some problems in the past.

  • @jordanlund
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    405 months ago

    We fixed this 124 years ago…

    • @stoly
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      235 months ago

      Worse is that this is basically just the Y2K problem…that they somehow never addressed.

      • @nandeEbisu
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        235 months ago

        They kludged it, probably only store 2 digits and if its lower than current year, assume 2000s, otherwise assume 1900s.

        • @stoly
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          135 months ago

          Ah, the “Windows 9” problem.

      • JWBananas
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        15 months ago

        That’s what they just said. It should have been fixed 124 years ago.