Delta Air Lines is shuffling its schedule out of New York City this fall by cutting three different routes and adding one more.
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Scott Darling and his wife drove their 17-year-old son, Asher, to the San Jose airport on Sunday morning and saw him off at the check-in counter. They were back in their car and pulling out of the airport when they got a frantic call: Delta Air Lines wouldn’t let Asher check in because he didn’t have a parent accompanying him on the flight.
“I was perplexed,” Mr. Darling said. Asher had flown by himself on several occasions, he said, and “we were never notified about this.”
Delta has been the slowest U.S. airline to restore its operations, canceling over 1,000 flights each day from Friday to Monday. Another more than 450 had been canceled as of midday on Tuesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.
On Tuesday, the secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, said his agency was opening an investigation into Delta’s ongoing response “to ensure the airline is following the law and taking care of its passengers during continued widespread disruptions.”
Delta began to bar children under 18 from traveling without a guardian as it struggled to recover from the global technology outage Friday that affected Microsoft users and systems across the world, and forced airlines around the world to ground flights.
Its suspension of travel for unaccompanied minors, a measure implemented with little notice, left some children stranded across state lines or even in different countries, and it left families scrambling to book last minute flights on other airlines or arrange alternative transportation.
Delta Air Lines is shuffling its schedule out of New York City this fall by cutting three different routes and adding one more.
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Operations are fully back on track at Delta Air Lines. After a five-day meltdown that saw more than 5,000 flights canceled between Friday and Tuesday, the airline on Wednesday announced it was "fully staffed" and prepared to fly its full schedule.
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday morning operations were beginning to improve after days of struggling to recover from a tech outage.
Delta is facing increasing pressure from its customers and Washington as a meltdown caused by an IT outage on Friday continues.