ATLANTA, Aug. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta has
cancelled approximately 300 flights due to a power outage impacting
Delta operations systemwide. As of 10:30
a.m. ET, Delta operated 800 of its nearly 6,000 scheduled
flights. While systems are improving and flights are resuming,
delays and cancellations continue.
A travel waiver is in effect:
http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/advisories/system-outage.html.
Customers heading to the airport should expect delays and
cancellations. While inquiries are high and wait times are long,
our customer service agents are doing everything they can to
assist. There may also be some lag time in the display of accurate
flight status at delta.com, the Fly Delta App and from Delta
representatives on the phone and in airport.
We apologize to customers who are affected by this issue, and
our teams are working to resolve the problem as quickly as
possible.
About Delta
Delta Air Lines serves nearly 180 million
customers each year. In 2016, Delta was named to Fortune's top 50
Most Admired Companies in addition to being named the most admired
airline for the fifth time in six years. Additionally, Delta has
ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for
an unprecedented five consecutive years. With an industry-leading
global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers
offer service to 335 destinations in 61 countries on six
continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs more than 80,000
employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800
aircraft. The airline is a founding member of
the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the
industry's leading transatlantic joint
venture with Air
France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint venture
withVirgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners,
Delta offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key
hubs and markets
including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit,Los
Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK and
LaGuardia, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de
Gaulle, Salt Lake
City, Seattle and Tokyo-Narita. Delta has invested
billions of dollars in airport facilities, global products and
services, and technology to enhance the customer experience in the
air and on the ground. Additional information is available on
the Delta News Hub, as well as delta.com,
Twitter @DeltaNewsHub, Google.com/+Delta, and
Facebook.com/delta.
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