Third Day of 1,000+ Cancelled Flights, Just in the US, After Crowdstrike Outage – Slashdot
Posted by EditorDavid from the flight-risks dept.
For the third straight day, “More than 1,000 US flights have been,” reports CNN, “as airlines struggle to recover from a global tech outage that left thousands of passengers stranded at airports.” More than 1,200 flights into, within or out of the United States were canceled by early Sunday afternoon, while more than 5,000 U.S. flights were delayed, according to the tracking website FlightAware.com… On Saturday, 2,136 US flights were canceled, and more than 21,300 flights were delayed…
USA Today notes that Friday several U.S. airlines issued ground stops (according to America’s Federal Aviation Administration) “which caused a domino effect into Sunday.”
They note that “most of the cancellations and delays Sunday are likely to be caused by airline crews and equipment being out of place.”
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