Delta’s CEO says the CrowdStrike outage cost the airline $500 million in 5 days

A Delta Air Lines jet takes off at the Los Angeles International Airport in April. Ed Bastian, the airline’s CEO, says the CrowdStrike outage has cost the carrier $500 million. Damian Dovarganes/AP

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The CEO of Delta Air Lines says the massive CrowdStrike outage that hobbled its flight operations earlier this month, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, has cost the airline as much as $500 million.

The outage hit Delta harder than most of its competitors. The airline was forced to cancel more than 5,000 flights as a result of the outage, which stymied businesses worldwide when a failed

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