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Major Outage Leads to Flight Cancellations Delays

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“OUTAGE FORCES FLIGHT DELAYS CANCELLATIONS”

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Topic poll · all networksWhich past tech outage hit air travel the hardest?

  • 2024 CrowdStrike IT meltdown 0%
  • 2023 FAA NOTAM system crash 0%
  • 2017 Delta power failure 0%
  • 2015 United ground stop 0%

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Topic poll · all networksHow many flights did Delta cancel during the 2024 CrowdStrike outage?

  1. Around 1,200
  2. Around 3,500
  3. Around 7,000
  4. Around 15,000
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Around 7,000

FAA's 2024 reauthorization law mandates major IT modernization.

The FAA still relies on systems dating to the 1970s. After the 2023 NOTAM outage grounded thousands of flights, Congress passed a 5-year reauthorization in 2024 requiring the FAA to overhaul its aging infrastructure.

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