communicate with the faa, electronically file a flight plan. within that flight plan has to be a dispatch time a time of arrival, the route of the flight and weight and balance information of the aircraft, the fuel on the aircraft and other sundry information required for safe flight and proper flow management of traffic by the faa. this could be a computer bug in the software of united or the continental systems. it could be a third party connectivity problem. it could be a very low probability of a hack or a combination of all three that became a cascading problem. but i have to tell you, simply because the problem has been resolved the issues that are going to be run into by the airlines concerning delays and other airlines and the passenger