Nearly every major airline carrier and many large international airports are dealing with massive delays today due to an outage at CrowdStrike, a key software system that guards most major industries from security threats.
Has the CrowdSrike outrage affect your flight? Here’s how to find out.
Is my flight canceled?
When major airports like Newark or JFK in New York have big delays, it messes up flights everywhere. Planes might have to circle in the air or land at different airports, causing those airports to get crowded and delayed too.
Flights that can’t leave on time mean other flights get delayed, and crew members might work too long and need replacements, making things even slower.
This ripple effect spreads, making the whole air travel system run late and causing lots of headaches for everyone.
Luckily, the major airports in the Mid-Atlantic region make it fairly easy to check for cancellations and delays through their respective websites:
Delaware airport:
New Jersey airports:
New York airports:
Pennsylvania Airports:
CrowdStrike outage grounds domestic flights
According to flight tracking service FlightAware, there have been nearly 20,000 flight delays and close to 2,000 cancellations as of Friday morning, mostly impacting international airlines such as Chinese Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines.
But domestic flights are also impacted, as FlightAware indicates Southwest Airlines had 454 delays as of Friday morning. Delta Airlines was among those also reporting delays and cancellations.
CrowdStrike says outage source identified, denies cyberattack
CrowdStrike’s leadership pushed an alert on X to update customers and shoot down rumors of a cyberattack.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” read a portion of the post from CrowdStrike President and CEO George Kurtz. “The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.”
Damon C. Williams is a Philadelphia-based journalist reporting on trending topics across the Mid-Atlantic Region.