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Delta CEO says global tech outage cost airline $500M

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the recent global technology outage caused the airline to experience widespread flight delays and cancellations, costing the company $500 million. “This cost $500 million,” Bastian said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “Over the course of five days, we lost tens of millions of dollars a day in lost […]

Delta suffered $500M loss from Crowdstrike debacle: Ed Bastian

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the airline will face $500 million in damages related to CrowdStrike’s global outage if it takes legal action. The airline has been the slowest of any major U.S. airline to recover from a software update problem with a cybersecurity firm that led to the cancellation of […]

Delta to seek compensation from Microsoft, CrowdStrike over global outage

Delta Air Lines has hired a law firm to seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike over the global cyber outage that disrupted air travel around the world earlier this month. CNBC reported: Monday. The Atlanta-based airline has been the slowest of any major U.S. airline to recover after a technical outage that caused the cancellation […]

Delta could take $500M profit hit after Crowdstrike outage: analyst

Wall Street analysts say last week’s global CrowdStrike outage could take a $500 million hit to Delta Air Lines’ current quarter profits. Citi Research aviation analyst Steven Trent slashed his third-quarter profit forecast for the Atlanta-based airline by more than $500 million due to the meltdown, which is still causing flight delays and cancellations this […]

Delta cancellations, delays from IT outage should end by Thursday: CEO

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that flight cancellations and delays caused by a major IT outage would continue into Thursday. Thousands of Delta Air Lines flights have been canceled or delayed since a global computer outage caused by security software CrowdStrike last Friday brought much of the airline industry to a halt. […]

Delta meltdown probed by feds as airline struggles days after global outage

The Transportation Department said Tuesday it was opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the company canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that has disrupted airlines around the world. While other airlines have been able to resume normal operations, Delta continues to cancel […]

U.S. Officials Investigating Delta Air Lines in Wake of Massive CrowdStrike IT Outage

Government authorities are investigating Delta Airlines following the recent CrowdStrike IT outage which caused massive disruption to the airline industry and other industries around the world. US Department of Transportation investigating Delta after flight cancellations, delays, Spectrum News 1 report on tuesday. In a social media post on Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said: Said“U.S. […]

DOT launches investigation into Delta Air Lines’ flight disruptions

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched an investigation into Delta Airlines following a large number of recent flight cancellations and delays. “The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Aviation Consumer Protection is investigating Delta Air Lines following continued widespread flight disruptions and reports of customer service issues,” the Transportation Department said in a statement […]

Delta cancels whopping 700 flights on Monday in wake of outage

Delta Air Lines continued to struggle to restore operations on Monday, three days after a global cyber outage disrupted flights around the world and stranded thousands of passengers across the country. The Atlanta-based airline canceled 828 flights, about 21% of its total scheduled flights, as of 4:15 p.m. ET on Monday. Flight AwareThis accounted for […]