In the Central US, cloud services provided by Microsoft have caused problems affecting flights including cancellations and delays it is investigating.
Airline Disruptions
Several low-cost carriers have reported problems linked to the outage: Several low-cost carriers have reported problems linked to the outage:
- Frontier Airlines: Frontier was fully transparent about the root cause explaining there was a ‘major Microsoft technical outage. ’ A total of 147 flights were canceled, and 212 were delayed by Frontier, Thursday, as provided by FlightAware.
- Allegiant: Because of the Microsoft Azure problem, its website crashed, and 45% of the flights were affected.
- SunCountry: This carrier had cancellation/time change for 23 percent of the flights saying a third-party vendor was hit by the outage. Microsoft’s Response Azure messaging from Microsoft said the problem began around 6 p.m. ET Thursday and impacted several Azure services in the Central U. S. Azure is the need of the hour for numerous applications and services related to the cloud infrastructure. Further, there is a situation with Microsoft 365, Client apps & services which is also under investigation by Microsoft. Further information or response to the queries asked by Reuters has not been offered by the company till the time of writing this article.