“Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million”
August 1, 2024
“Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
The airline canceled more than 5,000 flights in the wake of the outage, which was caused by a botched CrowdStrike software update and took thousands of Microsoft systems around the world offline.
Bastian said the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, “We have no choice.”…”