Tag: operational-meltdown
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You’re on Guard! Weekly Recap: CrowdStrike and Microsoft Fight Back with Delta, Spirit Reports a Further Loss, and Southwest’s Exploding Soda Cans
The Main Squawk: CrowdStrike and Microsoft call Delta’s bluff Last week, we reviewed Delta’s operational meltdown after a CrowdStrike outage led to tens of thousands of flight cancellations across the globe. It took the Company five days to recover—three times longer than any other carrier—forcing CEO Ed Bastian to do what he does best and…
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You’re on Guard! Weekly Recap: Delta Refuses to Own-Up to Its Operational Meltdown, Southwest Gets With the Times
The Main Squawk: Delta has its worst operational meltdown ever Delta’s horrific recovery from the CrowdStrike outage that occurred on Fri, July 19, was by-far the worst operational failure the U.S. airline industry has seen since the Southwest holiday travel meltdown in 2022. While the faulty update CrowdStrike pushed to its security software was certainly…
