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Delta Air Lines to cancel nearly 250 flights on Tuesday

Published: 09 Aug 2016 - 01:29 pm | Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 - 10:09 pm
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Passengers in line await updates from Delta airline employees at Pearson International airport, in Toronto, Canada on August 8, 2016. Passengers were left stranded, some for several hours, after a computer issue left the American air carrier's flights grounded across the globe. ( Giordano Ciampini - Anadolu Agency)

 

Delta Air Lines Inc said it was cancelling nearly 250 flights on Tuesday as it looks to restore operations after a power outage hit its computer systems on
Monday, causing the cancellation of about 1,000 flights.

"We were able to bring our systems back on line and resume flights within a few hours yesterday but we are still operating in recovery mode," Delta said in a statement on Tuesday.

An outage hit Delta's computer systems on Monday, grounding planes and stranding passengers of one of the world's largest carriers at airports around the globe.