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Delta Air Lines Flights Canceled

However, Delta said travelers headed to airports should expect delays and/ or cancellations.

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United States based Delta Airlines, has lifted a ground stop with limited departures resuming, following a power outage in Atlanta that impacted the airline company’s computer systems and operations worldwide.

The local electric utility, Georgia Power, said the problem was “a failure overnight in a piece of equipment known as switchgear” that affected only Delta. “Our crews have been out there all morning closely with Delta and their team as they fix the affected equipment”.

Most airlines have backup contingencies for computer system failures, but occasionally there are system-wide failures.

But according to Maisel, Delta’s published flight times may not be completely accurate.

Large-scale cancellations are expected today.

Fliers took to social media with images of growing lines at a number of locations served by Delta.

The New York Times is reporting that Delta Airlines, the nations 3d biggest carrier, has resumed some flights Monday morning.

As compensation for the inconvenience, Delta offered refunds to travelers whose flights are cancelled or significantly delayed. Flights that are already on their way to their destination remain unaffected by this issue. She did say people were experiencing long wait times when calling Delta customer service.

Their canceled flight was scheduled to land in Nashville at 2:30 p.m.

Delta shares tanked 7.8% after the financial update on Tuesday, leaving them down more than 25% so far this year.

Mariand Torres, 33, and Nick Duckardt, 30, both of Astoria, waited in the Delta Air Lines terminal at LaGuardia Monday morning with their dog, Lucy, a dachshund-Chihuahua mix.

Flights resumed but on a limited basis, and Delta warned the ripple effect of the computer breakdown would drag on.

The Lee High School graduate, who was on leave for his mother’s birthday last week, returned to the airport at around 9 a.m.to see if he could catch the next flight out.

At the height of the outage about 300 flights at Pearson International Airport were affected.

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The massive outage threw the airline back to the days of yore in aviation travel, where many things were done manually. Raspanti is trying to get to San Francisco after her Delta flight was delayed. Even brief outages can snarl traffic and cause long delays. It wasn’t until July 25 that Southwest said it was back to a near-normal operation, something that came after more than 2,300 cancellations – about 12% of its schedule over the period. An afternoon flight arriving from Atlanta was canceled. It has operated 800 of the almost 6,000 flights scheduled today.

Thousands of passengers were stranded when Delta Airlines’ computer system failed. The outage stranded passengers at KCI.                      KSHB