1,555 more flights have been cancelled by Delta Airlines as it works to recover from Friday’s global IT failure.
While the majority of other airlines have allegedly recovered from the issue, reports indicate that Delta cancelled 1,250 flights on Sunday and an additional 305 flights on Monday.
In a statement to the public on Sunday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian stated that the airline has halted operations following the Friday disruption, which resulted in the cancellation of 3,500 flights through Saturday and into Sunday.
This was the airline’s “busiest travel weekend of the summer,” when the disruption occurred, according to Bastian.
The airline has not yet given a timeframe for the return of regular operations.
Airlines were among the businesses most impacted by a fault in the security programme CrowdStrike that brought down computer systems internationally on Friday.
The incident had an impact on nearly all major industries, including financial institutions, delivery services, merchants, and healthcare providers.
Airports and airlines took the brunt of the damage: According to FlightAware, there were almost 46,000 delayed flights and 5,171 cancelled flights on Friday alone. The hardest devastated region was Delta.
“Canceling a flight is always a last resort, and something we don’t take lightly,” Bastian said in the statement.
The announcement comes a day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out Delta for continuing cancellations and delays following Friday’s outage.
“We have received reports of continued disruptions and unacceptable customer service conditions at Delta Air Lines, including hundreds of complaints filed with U.S. DOT,” Buttigieg wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday.
In response, Bastian apologized for the delays.
“I want to apologize to every one of you who have been impacted by these events. Delta is in the business of connecting the world, and we understand how difficult it can be when your travels are disrupted,” he wrote.
We earlier reported that there have been reports of resumption of operation in services like banking, shipping, healthcare, and airlines after the global tech outage.
