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23.07.2024 - 22:01 / afar.com / Ed Bastian
In the wake of a worldwide technology outage, my Sunday afternoon flight with Delta Air Lines from Boston Logan (BOS) to San Francisco (SFO) was canceled, and the next option to fly on Delta was nearly 48 hours later. I rebooked myself on United Airlines, which got me to my destination just over 12 hours later than originally scheduled—at a cost that exceeded $2,000. Thankfully, I was traveling for work and the new flight was covered as a business expense. If I was paying out of my own pocket, however, I would have submitted the new flight for reimbursement via the travel insurance coverage offered through my credit card.
You could argue that I was one of the lucky ones. Days after a CrowdStrike software update for Microsoft resulted in global computer crashes, Delta has canceled more than 1,000 flights again on Tuesday, marking the fifth consecutive day that Delta has struck at least 1,000 flights from its schedule, stranding thousands of passengers and bringing a formal investigation from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in part because Delta has temporarily paused travel for unaccompanied minors.
While operations at other U.S. carriers have returned to near normalcy as of Tuesday morning, Delta continues to flounder. More than 25 percent of the airline’s flights were delayed or canceled, as of 3 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.
On Monday, Delta and its regional affiliates accounted for about two-thirds of all cancellations worldwide. Nearly 6,000 Delta flights have been axed from the schedule since Friday. Ed Bastian, the airline’s CEO, addressed passengers in an email on Sunday, blaming the knock-on effects of last week’s global tech disruption.
“I want to apologize to every one of you who have been impacted by these events,” Bastian wrote in a statement Sunday. “Please know that Delta’s entire team of the best professionals in the business have been working around the clock to safely get you where you need to go, and restore the reliable, on-time experience you’ve come to expect.”
The airline confirmed that Friday’s brief outage hampered one of Delta’s critical crew scheduling platforms, rendering it “unable to effectively process the unprecedented number of changes.” As other airlines recovered, Delta has been unable to position pilots and flight attendants, many of whom remain stranded. The carrier’s website and mobile app have also floundered in recent days, with many passengers unable to perform self-service functions to rebook flights on their own.
“It is going to take another couple of days before we are in a position to say that the worst is clearly behind us,” Bastian told employees in an internal memo on Monday. “Today will be a better day than
A low-cost airline is on the move with new routes and flight deals. Avelo Airlines, based in Houston, recently announced a major expansion with its first international destinations of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Cancun, Mexico.
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