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.”
  • @cm0002
    2•2 months ago

    No, we’re talking about things that should happen and things that should be called out every time.

    Not just throwing up our hands and going “welp, they won’t willingly do it so there’s nothing we can do” like you seem to be doing.

    • partial_accumen
      1•2 months ago

      Not just throwing up our hands and going “welp, they won’t willingly do it

      This is what I’m doing.

      so there’s nothing we can do” like you seem to be doing.

      This is NOT what I’m doing. Just because I don’t think the suggested approach is viable doesn’t mean that NO approach is viable.