Breaking: Outage Grounds All Domestic Delta Flights

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: January 29, 2017

29 comments

Per the FAA, “automation issues” have grounded all Delta flights to domestic destinations, including flights operated by subsidiaries. According to the notice, all international flights are exempt, though based on what I’m hearing, that’s not the case across the board. As of the time of this post the issue is persisting, though hopefully it’s fixed soon. Here’s the FAA notice about it:

GROUND STOP DAL AND SUB CARRIERS TO DOMESTIC DESTINATIONS.
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT ARE EXEMPT. THIS IS DUE TO AUTOMATION ISSUES
WITH DAL. UPDATE AT 0030Z.

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Hopefully this isn’t as bad as their outage last August…

If you’re flying Delta today or tomorrow I’d certainly keep an eye on this, as this could have a spillover effect to tomorrow, even if the issue is fixed soon.

Anyone flying Delta tonight and facing this issue firsthand?

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ENdre Diamond

January 30, 2017, 9:08 am

I got a phone text msg from delta this morning asking me to look into my mailbox. Whoo hooo. Am I getting some miles? Voucher because Dimond and I had to sleep on airport floor? So I did look. It was a three paragraphs "sorry for your luck" message. Sorry my ass Delta. And CNN says there were some domestic interruptions. Some? I was in the middle of this "some" interruption in DTW. What a mess. After hours at gate Noone knows what's going on... We board, we set hours on plane because MSP was full of planes, can't land at MSP. Than deicing... TWO deicing pads at DTW for all these planes TWO. I expect two deicing pads in a Florida airport but in DTW? Of for course our deicing truck breaks down and they have to climb into.it. Repair truck comes....but got another deice truck finally. Bunch of amateurs running Delta and DTW. And if someone tries to blame this to Trump. He she is just as an idiot as Delta CIO.

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Bob Guest

January 30, 2017, 6:45 am

Thanks Obama!

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RK Guest

January 30, 2017, 4:34 am

If it's an automation issue, that means Delta need more/better SRE & DevOps engineers. Unfortunately, Facebook, Google, Apple & most tech companies in Silicon Valley poached most of them...

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Endre Diamond

January 30, 2017, 3:33 am

So whats the consensus about the reimb we are asking from Delta? I was stuck at DTW fir four hours arrived to MSP five hours late at 1 AM

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Sice Diamond

January 30, 2017, 1:32 am

just checked in for our 8:35am flight tomorrow...of course was asked to volunteer my seat. If not flying with the family I'd have put $1000 down to see what happens

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