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.

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    At least choose an 8-bit digit for the ages of passengers! You’d have to live to be 256 to roll that over!

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      Might as well play it safe and make it a 16-bit integer on the off chance the world doesn’t end and we quadruple our life expectancy

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        We haven’t learned our lesson about Unix time overflow yet, have we? Better up it to 64 bit signed, just to be sure.

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          Make that bad boy unsigned, just to be safe!

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        8 months ago

        Emperor Leto Atreides II deserves to Fly American™ just as much as the rest of us