July 19 Will Go Down in History
Worse ever worldwide computer outage. Airlines are struggling with far from normal arrivals and departures from mounting cancellations and delays. Saturday 20 July saw some of the worse scenes of the aftermath of Microsoft outage that leave millions at a standstill. Sunday 21 July will still leave many displaced with a final clearing up Monday 22 2024.
Microsoft outage apparently caused by an update to computers by Crowdstrike. Problems became apparent late on Thursday July 18 when three airlines hit by outage were Sun Country, Allegiant Air, and Frontier Airlines. Then select airports across the country had outage and difficulties in airport operations along with reports by Fire and Aviation TV.
It was apparent and other business and late night some fire departments were experiencing problems that by early Friday Morning worldwide outage that brought banks business and cities to a halt.
As many have recovered and others in recovery for the airline industry you cannot just restart at the flick of a switch. Logistically it will take some airlines between three to five days to get back to normal operations.
Source Airlines Adviser in assistance by Fire and Aviation TV 0721/24