Just an FYI: at about 4PM PST today there was another 'mass' boot ('mass' meaning several people booted at the same time, but certainly not all; when I got back in there were enemy planes over my field that couldn't have gotten there if they had been booted as well).  When I tried to reconnect, the LW arena, and all arenas on the LW server like AvA, were 100% ping lost in AH plot (but not, I think, in PingPlotter).  Other arenas, like EW and MW were up.  When I did connect after the boot, it didn't put me back in flight.  Some time before being booted I had noticed weird delay behavior: I would select something in the hanger or select a new field and it would take many seconds for it to take affect despite there being no peak in the variance plot.