The slow painful lack of progress with the Air Canada reservations project known as
Polaris has come to a dead stop with AC writing off C$67 million. More importantly, the depth of the work left to do was an astonishing C$40 million. This clearly indicates that the project was no where near done. Even if you discount a large amount of money for implementation, there is a clear indication that this project had some significant hills to climb to reach an "implementable" solution. Sadly, ITA Software is left without its anchor customer for what is a significant amount of their future revenue expectation. And the big winner in all this?
