US carriers grounded as Microsoft fixes cloud outage

By Reuters

Jul 20, 2024 12:11 am

MAJOR US carriers including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines issued ground stops on Friday morning citing communication issues, less than an hour after Microsoft resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several low-cost carriers.

It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off were related to the earlier Microsoft cloud outage. Apart from American and Delta, UAL and Allegiant Air, too, grounded flights.

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