Traffic & Transit
Delta Air Lines Online Outage Grounds Flights For Hours Around US
The nationwide groundstop caused a social media firestorm on Tuesday night around the country.
ATLANTA, GA -- Delta Air Lines said Tuesday night that it experienced an online outage that resulted in a nationwide ground stop. In a statement, the airline said its "IT teams are working diligently to address a technology issue impacting some of our systems. We have issued a Delta groundstop as we work to bring systems back up as quickly as possible. There has been no disruption or safety issue with any Delta flight currently in the air.
"We apologize to all customers for this inconvenience."
The outage created a firestorm on Twitter:
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If you want to know what hell is like, it’s sitting on a plane during a world-wide airline system crash #Delta
— Dic Donohue (@DicDonohue) September 26, 2018
@Delta extreme incompetence today. Sitting on the Tarmac for 75 minutes after landing at JFK, and tons of gates available, and zero crew or solutions to get us 20 feet forward and off this damn plane. Embarrassed to be a million miler with Delta - do better!
— Taylor Eigsti (@tayloreigsti) September 26, 2018
You're killing me @Delta
— Yani Carter (@Be_YAN_ce) September 26, 2018
Delta Airlines computers are down in Atlanta. No boarding no App no nothing #Delta
— kent conwell (@kentconwell1) September 25, 2018
Another @delta flight, another Delta delay for “systems issues.” Waiting at the gate for an hour now and no update for passengers. Ridiculous
— Derek Tyson (@DerekJTyson) September 25, 2018
The systems came back online around 9:20 pm, according to Delta:
.@Delta teams have restored all IT systems after a technology issue briefly affected some of our systems this evening. All groundstops have been lifted.
— Delta News Hub (@DeltaNewsHub) September 26, 2018
This happens all too often. You guys need to figure it out!
— Luis (@LuisPedroza) September 26, 2018
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