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Delta Air Lines warned Wednesday that flights may be delayed after a “technical issue” blocked passengers from booking, checking in and boarding.
“We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience they are experiencing as we work quickly to re-emergence our operations to normal,” the airline said in a statement. “While we expect flight delays to extend into the evening at some of our busiest indigenous hubs due to this issue and weather, we do not expect any technology-related cancellations.”
Delta did not immediately say what caused the issue or how tons flights were delayed.
The airline previously said a system-wide outage in August 2016 cost it $150 million in take. Outages have also hit American and United in recent years.
U.S. airlines suffered 34 computer outages between 2015 and 2017, and 85% of them caused away delays and cancellations, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office that it published last week.
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