Global tech outage continues disrupting US air travel for fourth consecutive day

Los Angeles, July 23 (IANS) The global tech outage continued to wreak havoc on US air travel Monday with hundreds of flights cancelled and thousands of passengers stranded at airports across the nation, four days after the incident caused widespread flight cancellations and delays.

According to data from the flight tracking site FlightAware, 1,759 flights within, into or out of the United States were cancelled, and over 10,000 were delayed on Monday.

Delta Air Lines was particularly hard hit, with 1,152 flights canceled and 1,725 flights delayed on Monday. Delta has cancelled over 5,000 flights since the outage began in the early hours of Friday.

The airline’s CEO, Ed Bastian, has apologised for the disruptions and announced that Delta is offering reimbursements to affected customers, Xinhua news agency reported.

Bastian expected the flight disruptions to last for “another couple of days” as the airline is “working around the clock” to restore normal operations.

Other major carriers, such as United Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines, have gradually recovered from the initial shock on Monday.

Bastian said that the disproportionate impact on Delta is attributed to the outage affecting the airline’s ability to track its crews and process changes, leading to a cascading effect of cancellations and delays.

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