Inside Delta’s Struggle To Recover After The Global CrowdStrike Outage

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Having determined that airline delays and cancellations resulting from the global IT outage were “controllable,” the U.S. Transportation Department has launched an investigation into Delta Air Lines, citing its lengthy recovery.

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Traveling to the Farnborough International Airshow this year was a story of planes, trains and even ferries for some members of the Aviation Week team as a global IT meltdown disrupted airlines and airports around the world. The outage was of course agnostic to industry and region, linked to a July...
Christine Boynton

Christine Boynton is a Senior Editor covering air transport in the Americas for Aviation Week Network.

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