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.”
  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    As far as the companies go, their lack of resources is an entirely self-inflicted problem, because they’re won’t invest in increasing those resources, like more IT infrastructure and staff. It’s the same as many companies that keep terrible backups of their data (if any) when they’re not bound to by the law, because they simply don’t want to pay for it, even though it could very well save them from ruin.

    The crowdstrike incident was as bad as it was exactly because loads of companies had their eggs in one basket. Those that didn’t recovered much quicker. Redundancy is the lesson to take from this that none of them will learn.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      As far as the companies go, their lack of resources is an entirely self-inflicted problem, because they’re won’t invest in increasing those resources, like more IT infrastructure and staff.

      Play that out to its logical conclusion.

      • Our example airline suddenly doubles or triples its IT budget.
      • The increased costs don’t actually increase profit it merely increases resiliency
      • Other airlines don’t do this.
      • Our example airline has to increase ticket prices or fees to cover the increased IT spending.
      • Other airlines don’t do this.
      • Customers start predominantly flying the other airlines with their cheaper fares.
      • Our example airline goes out of business, or gets acquired by one of the other airlines

      The end result is all operating airlines are back to the prior stance.

      • bomibantai@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        customers start predominantly flying the other airlines with cheaper fares

        I was with you till this part, except with the way flying is set up in this country, there’s very little competition between airlines. They’ve essentially set themselves up with airports/hubs so if an airline is down for a day, that’s kinda it unless you want to switch to a different airport.