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The airline cancelled more than 1,200 flights on Friday. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] Thousands of stranded travelers were forced to spend the night at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , Delta's largest hub and the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic . [ 119 ]
In mid July 2024, Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. carrier and the largest airline in the world by revenue, assets, market capitalization experienced an operational disruption following the 2024 CrowdStrike incident including the cancelation of over 1,200 flights. The crisis began on the morning of Friday, July 19 when a ground stop was issued by ...
Delta, which said it has purchased CrowdStrike products since 2022, said the outage forced it to cancel 7,000 flights, impacting 1.3 million passengers over five days.
The battle between Delta Air Lines and CrowdStrike has escalated after both companies filed competing lawsuits against each other over the summer's tech outage and flight cancellations.
Southwest suffered this fate in 2022, when the airline canceled almost 17,000 flights after a brutal winter storm, but was unable to recover from the meltdown due to outdated software.
Many flights were repeatedly delayed and finally cancelled because the one or two crew members who made it to the gate for a particular flight kept hitting their legal flight time limit before the airline could finish fully staffing the flight, and this caused the crisis to snowball as those crew and their aircraft were now in the wrong place ...
Delta Air Lines sued CrowdStrike on Friday, claiming the cybersecurity company had cut corners and caused a worldwide technology outage that led to thousands of canceled flight in July. The ...
Thousands of flights were canceled and tens of thousands were delayed, leading to long lines at airports in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. ... “Given that CrowdStrike has a ton of ...