Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The U.S. airline grounded all domestic flights Tuesday to deal with a technology issue that affected some of its systems. About an hour later, Delta said it had restored all its systems, allowing the services to resume. While the carrier said there were no disruptions or safety issues with any flight, the systems failure was the third in as many years that forced Delta to shut its operations. In January last year, a 2 1/2-hour computer breakdown grounded domestic flights. Delta's worldwide computer systems failed in August 2016, causing massive cancellations. This time, international flights weren't affected, and the grounding was relatively short. Still, with limited updates on flight schedules, irate customers took to social media.

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Re: Still not surprised, but a little confused

[mhotchin]

Knock on effects. Oops, missed your connecting flight. Oops, flight crew is now over hours, have to get another one. Oops, flight didn't make it, so the flight out of the destination is hooped as well.