Flights at SFO impacted by global outage

Published 2024-07-19
A major tech outage has resulted in the grounding of thousands of flights around the world. The issue stems from a faulty update for Microsoft Systems. Here in the Bay Area, the outage caused chaos for travelers. Passengers at SFO are still trying to get to their destinations.

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All Comments (21)
  • It's not only the airline business. It's actually the hospitality business as well. Hotels are affected especially the HYATT do not come. We cannot check people in.
  • Can you imagine working at the Airport and all the passengers stranded are blaming you. Even. Thought it’s not your fault. I feel sorry for the workers.
  • @SLAPTALK
    How can CrowdStrike approve an update of this magnitude without proper testing first??
  • @GingerTurquoise
    People are calling these people babies?? I dont understand. These people are rightfully upset. Imagine paying THOUSANDS of dollars to travel only for the airline to goof up IT wise. Many people may not get refunded for their hotels or other costs, losing out on a LOT of money. Others might not get their PTO back that theyve been saving up. It rly sucks for them
  • @jayjones8181
    Everything is being destroyed by these idiots in Charge.
  • @justcody85
    I truly hope she had cruise insurance 🙏
  • @michaelyoung1502
    This was nation wide. Happened to government offices. Anyone that uses Microsoft…so many businesses went down.
  • @mkaymkay7778
    As someone who has traveled many times to take a cruise I would be pissed too.
  • @bigd5080
    What cracks me up is that people are still so suprised when something like this happens. It’s 2024 and EVERYTHING is broken. Tech has made EVERYTHING worse. You can’t do ANYTHING today without a snag or glitch or half assed service. I Keep things simple and stay at home. Society is collapsing.
  • I make my life simple and never fly. I haven’t flown since 2000. Trains do not seem appealing either. Home is the best place to be. Thank you God.
  • @DanWint
    Wait till AI gets going, better hold on to your cojones.
  • @sclogse1
    Got a buddy flying out next Tuesday. Wonder if confusion leftovers awaits.
  • @wewere1.0
    I work valet at a resort and all computer systems were down, couldn’t charge customers, room keys didn’t work, guests flights were canceled/delayed, and we couldn’t even clock in. 6am-3pm and it was still down when I leff
  • @ThePxggyProdz
    I shook hands with the reporter bcuz i was stuck in line he’s rlly nice
  • @jennie7
    It’s a test run for what’s to come. They are maybe seeing how people will react for the first 24-48 hours
  • More proof that Microsoft pushing cloud based applications is not the smartest thing to do. We kept our back ups and files local. If the Internet went down at least we could still work.