Delta CEO Blames Airline's Groundstop ‘Hiccup’ on a Faulty Device
- All U.S. flights were halted Tuesday by system outage
- Incident was airline’s third IT disruption in three years
Delta Air Lines Inc. planes.
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Delta Air Lines Inc. blamed a “physical device issue” for a systems failure that forced the carrier to briefly ground all domestic flights earlier this week.
Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian on Friday provided few details about the cause of the disruption. Speaking at the Skift Global Forum in New York, he referred to the Sept. 25 problem as “a hiccup” and said it wasn’t a technology application issue.