Bastian told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, "We have no choice."
  • Delta Air Lines 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 4,000 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, speaking from Paris, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, “We have no choice.”
    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      They’re pissing away their operating system goodwill so fast.

      They pissed it away {checks DoJ v. Microsoft} 25 years ago.

    • xradeon@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think what I was hearing is that the CrowdStrike driver is WHQL approved, but the theory is that it’s just a shell to execute code from the updates it downloads, thus effectively bypassing the WHQL approval process.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know that Microsoft has OS goodwill. People use it because the apps are there, not because Windows has a good user experience.