Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A Microsoft outage has caused thousands of canceled flights on July 19, 2024. A t 6 a.m.
Eastern Time on Friday, 512 flights in the U.S. had been canceled due to a global outage impacting computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
By 8:30 a.m. the number of nixed flights had more than doubled to 1,180, according to data from FlightAware .
That number will surely climb higher throughout the morning. The FAA is “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S.
airlines. Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops for their fleets until the issue is resolved,” the agency told Forbes in an email. Up to 3.
7 million passengers are flying out of U.S. airports on Friday, according to Cirium , an aviation analytics company, on roughly 24,000 scheduled domestic flights and 3,000 international flights.
Friday morning’s cancellations represent approximately 4.2% of the United States’ scheduled flights, “which is significantly higher than usual at this point in the day,” according to a Cirium spokesperson. At 8:30 a.
m. Eastern, the five U.S.
airports with the most cancellations were Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson (103), Minneapolis/St Paul (56), Chicago O’Hare (51), New York’s LaGuardia (50) and Detroit Metro Wayne County (49). Flying on Friday? Use These Tips Put your airline in your pocket. At the very least, you should download your airline’s app, which will let y.