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.”
  • @lennybirdEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    Additionally, don’t worry, they’ll just shift more costs onto the consumer and ultimately widen their profit-margins in no time.

    Perhaps Boeing can save the airline industry a little more by lowering the costs of their planes by removing another bolt and jerry-rigging flight software onto an antiquated platform.