> “My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922," she told me.
So it's a classic Y2K bug. Something is representing the year as two digits, meaning the century needs to be guessed, and the heuristic gives the wrong answer for this case.
I think the problem with airlines is that a lot of internal information transfer is via fixed sized fields and often birth date is represented as 2 digits