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Updated at 13.35
DELTA AIR LINES has said to expect widespread delays and cancellations to flights following a “major system-wide network outage” which has grounded planes around the world.
The airline announced this afternoon that the ground stop had been lifted and limited departures were resuming following a power outage in Atlanta, which began at 2.30am local time (7.30 Irish time), and had impacted the Delta computer systems.
The airline said earlier that systems had been down “everywhere” as a result of the outage.
“Large-scale cancellations are expected today,” the airline said.
As of about 2pm, the airline said it had cancelled about 300 flights. It operates more than 15,000 a day along with its alliance partners.
Nearly 400 others were delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.
“The timing of this problem is particularly bad because Monday morning is one of the busiest times for both airlines and travelers as business travelers begin their work week,” said Daniel Baker, FlightAware’s CEO.
A spokesperson for Dublin Airport said that two Delta Air Lines flights had been delayed from departing the airport.
Both the 10.10am flight to Atlanta and the 11.45am flight to New York were due to depart at 1pm, but have yet to leave.
A passenger inside the airport said that the Atlanta flight has just begun to board at about 1.30pm this afternoon.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, passenger Kevin Bates, due to fly on the 11.45am to New York, said that passengers had yet to board the plane.
“We won’t leave at 1pm but [Delta staff] hope to board in 30 minutes or so but we may be in Dublin for a while,” he said.
Bates said that staff had recently announced that the mainframe was back up and running in Atlanta and that systems were coming back online.
He said that the “staff have been great and are continually apologising and the pilot came to talk to people”.
Bates also said that the staff appeared not to know what exactly was happening with the problem, and that an announcer said they were getting their information from the BBC and CNN.
Another passenger tweeting from the airport confirmed that staff were not sure of the nature of the problem.
Tweeting from the airport, Austin-based creative engineer and activist Joshua McClure said that veteran staff had managed to login on an older, terminal-based system and were processing passengers that way.
“System-wide network outage”
The Atlanta-based airline flies to destinations all over the world. It said that it transports over 160 million travellers each year.
Delta / TwitterHi there. I am really sorry for the inconvenience. Our systems are down everywhere. Hopefully it won't be much longer. *SD
— Delta (@Delta) August 8, 2016
It tweeted this morning that systems were down “everywhere” and that hopefully the issue would be resolved soon.
“We are currently experiencing a major system-wide network outage,” the airline said.
Our Team is working diligently to get it back up and running.
On a statement on its website, Delta said that all flights awaiting departure were delayed.
“Flights awaiting departure are currently delayed. Flights enroute are operating normally,” it said.
It has urged travelers “to check the status of their flights this morning while the issue is being addressed”.
It has been responding to multiple customers’ complaints on Twitter this morning and afternoon.
The airline has apologised for the inconvenience.
With AFP
It’s a bigoted hatefest openly celebrated by thousands. It’s a major incident in itself.
RUC afraid to upset their buddies in the UVF.
@Jack: the RUC don’t exist anymore, you must be a Free Stater with a comment like that.
How on earth would this work in a United Ireland. Cant see any unification happening for a long time….if ever. These lads marching in Scottish traditions, honouring a Dutch king and proud to be British …in Ireland. Who is going to sort that out!
@Paul Furey: the government responsible for the very successful Brexit process, that’s who.
@Brian Farrell: Saw what you did there :)
@Paul Furey: they’ll leave to be closer to their queen (hopefully)
@Paul Furey: it would be sorted like the love ulster rally
@Paul Furey:
Not forgetting that 1690 event, celebrated on 12 July each year, was in fact originally financed by The Vatican due to some power struggle between the Pope and Louis XIV of France.
I wonder how many NI Orangemen are aware of this historical fact.
It’s all mad Ted, so it is
@Paul Furey: Who cares really, people have short memories and will eventually wonder why they bothered.
@Paul Furey: Haa haa, you obviously didn’t know that one of the largest parades takes place in Donegal every year and there is rarely any incidents. Once we have a United Ireland, the 12th marches will still continue, but the context and impact on local communities will obviously be very different.
@thesaltyurchin: Really? How long have they been marching, how far back in history do they continuously go to blame the other side, how bigoted are they and look how many there are ….oh they may change in a couple of hundred years…but until then…they will be the flip side of what the nationalists have had to go through the last 400 years. Dont kid yourself!
@Cal Mooney: take off your green tinted glasses and study the people involved. Theres nothing obvious at all. A United Ireland will need spill as much blood as the troubles…..before anything ever settles. Who is going to sort that out?
@Paul Furey: Thats exactly it, it’s history it continues to slip further and further away from the problems of the future, like I said, one day people will wonder why bother, it’s a shame those who couldn’t care less about the ‘history of victory’ will have to wait for everyone else.
@Paul Furey: there won’t be unification for centuries , why would we want a bunch of nutters like these loyalists anyway?
@Rory J Leonard: King Billy was gay, that’s overlooked by these Neanderthals
@Cal Mooney: come into the real world please, won’t happen
@Gus Sheridan: it will happen. It’s just around the corner
@Paul Furey: Over 50 lodges from the republic take part in it every year. One of the biggest marches happened last week in Co Donegal where thousands showed up. You need to get out of your Dublin bubble.
@Paul Darby: at least we kept the river.
Only in Northern Ireland would throwing a petrol bomb at the police be classed a “minor” incident.
@Robbie Clancy: demonstrably false. Cheap shot and not that funny/intelligent
@Stephen Coveney: I was thinking the same thing, I can’t see people getting away with that in France where they’re battoned and tear gassed for peaceful protesting. In the US they’d be shot for petrol bombing police.
Can’t believe this is still a thing, it’s 2019!!
@Mel Fitzpatrick: yeah but important to remember 1690 in the 21sr century for these deluded souls
Of course there were fewer incidents if the authorities are afraid to deal with them
Most people in the North of Ireland are good decent people and want to live in peace.Every society you will get the good and the bad.
@Marty from Sligo: true however the orange order which this article about are not preaching the good. Check out the nutjob playing the Lambeg drum in the pic. They are a bunch of complete loons
@Donwon999: Lambeg Drums are played with canes. That one is just a …………big drum.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: sorry Sean your correct. You’ve just knocked me off my game for the day
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Lambeth drums are much bigger too
@Gus Sheridan: , Lambeg Lambeg Lambeg not fecking Lambeth. Bloody predictive text strikes again.
“Those Protestants up to no good again.” Lol.
For all that some may claim is wrong with our country at least we don’t have this cultural powder keg carry on to deal with. We can safely say we’re far ahead of Northern Ireland in development as a nation on this island
@Jake Kelly: Maybe that’s because you share the republic with anyone . It’s a republican state . NI is shared state between unionists and nationalists but that will all change if a UI comes about .
@John Smith: share the republic with nobody .
@John Smith: UI is impossible. We pay €14 million every day on our €200+ billion National Debt – and NI costs the UK Exchequer €1 billion a month!
@Alonzo Margate: i didn’t know the British government got zero revenue from the north but just payed in with no return. Economists much have changed since I was at school.
@Jack: The NET cost to the UK is €1 billion a month. So easily verified – Google is your friend.
@Jake Kelly: Lol! ‘we are ahead’… The idea that we are ahead of anything is hilarious. NI is connected to a system with actual infrastructures that work, yes, Tory Britain a more socially inclusive society than this redneck republic. the individual in NI stands to lose far more in a united Ireland than we do. Long way to go before we’re ‘ahead’ in whatever made-up societal scenario you’re imagining.
@Alonzo Margate: We got 26 countries knee deep in cow shit the 6 was highly industrial, the north of Ireland could be great again.
@John Smith: UI ? You and I will be long gone before that happens
@Gus Sheridan: you must be planning on going fairly soon then Gus. It is around the corner
@thesaltyurchin: were ahead because we don’t have sectarian violence as a constant cloud hanging over our heads. Northern Ireland’s infrastructure comes from being part of a bigger and more powerful nation than us and we can improve our infrastructure because we don’t have two sides of your society constantly at each other, we’ve had a government for three years (not a good one but it’s an actual government we don’t need to use major civil rights advances as a tool to try and bring our leaders to the table to do their jobs in some way
@Jake Kelly: “we can improve our infrastructure”… funny how that hasn’t happened yet, with our ‘single sided’ forward thinking republican populous. #winning? Give. Me. A. Break.
A parody of themselves. All over 50 and overweight – maybe they should do a bit more marching in private.
Only amusing bit is the Gay Orange Band – the Pride Of Ardoyne
What a bunch of loons.
If a United Ireland or Union of Ireland was to happen, we would all have to suck this stuff up. You can’t suppress this, intern them, send them back to Scotland. It’s a bit like the travelers having horse fairs and fighting, the puck fair ion Killorglin, hare coursing and so on. They are things that people do. Not for everyone and potentially distasteful but we are not grown up enough to have a true United Ireland if we cannot tolerate this stuff even if it makes us sick. In time in any case I think younger people will be too embarassed to do it.
@the-baldie-lad: Exactly, the price of social inclusivity is not exclusive. We’re on a rock that is spinning around a ball of fire, one that is gradually getting hotter and hotter. Who really cares.
@the-baldie-lad: great comment. Totally agree. If this is the price we have to pay for UI, so be it. In a united Ireland, I believe there should be a national holiday on July 12th and let these people beat their drums all the want on that day. Most people will just ignore them. They more they get ignored, the quicker they will fizzle out.
@the-baldie-lad: in about another 300 years?
@@at: won’t have time to enjoy their parades we will be too busy in the middle of a civil war
@Gus Sheridan: ridiculous comment. The UVF and loyalist terror gangs were nothing without the support of the British security personnel. They won’t have that support this time around
@@at: finally somebody that sees sense. I know numerous towns who fought for years over flags and parades until the nationalists made a point of not complaining and just ignoring them. Go on holidays on the 12th. What was the outcome? They are that lazy they dont put up tge flags anymore and have moved to next town to parade because it gets more attention. Watch the documentry about brits in crossmaglen. They said the hardest thing for them to get used to was the people young and old walking past like they were invisable. Not even a glance in their direction. Self respect and pride will beat the orange order, we all know they have none.
@Doire: I must watch it. These parades etc are a show of strength. If they have less and less people watching their ‘show of strength’, the strength diminishes
@Doire: have you got a link for that doc ?
@Doire: That was a tactic also used in the southern states in the US when the KK used to march like the OO. Totally ignored by the Blacks or they just turned their backs and carried liue the march wasn’t happening.
It’s a great tactic. If marching has no effect, it’s pointless because conflict have always been desired by the OO.
‘Without major incident’? Did nobody see the the effigies of politicians, Irish flags, hate-filled and sectarian messages threatening varying sections of society on their cultural bonfires? The Irish and Brit media ARE NOT fit for purpose, they’re meant to report news, NOT distort and embellish it….. then again, why would they not report truthfully, it wouldn’t suit either governments narratives on Ireland today!
Mean while st Patrick’s day in Dublin was such a peaceful time for everyone. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/st-patricks-day-tourist-attacked-as-city-descends-into-night-of-violence-31075654.html
@John Smith: Yes, we’re great at criticising and laughing at others – but not so much ourselves! And of course, Trump and Boris are buffoons – and the UK are making a mess of Brexit. However – neither the US or UK – ever had to be bailed out, to avoid bankruptcy.
@John Smith: maybe ira did it
@John Smith: From 4 years ago John………..
@John Smith: even on St Patricks day it says tension escalated in Belfast, bloody protestants couldnt allow everyone to have a good day. Even when you try to make a point you still mess it up Seàn.
@Alonzo Margate: UK had a bailout in the 70s
@Alonzo Margate: don’t know if you are joking about the bailout bit? But the British had a bailout from the IMF in the 70s.. and the US is borrowing billions and billions an month. And it’s current debt stands at over a trillion
@Fear Uisce: don’t forget all the American dollars after the war..
@Tom Kelly: In 76, the UK had to apply for a £4 billion loan. Hardly a bailout, as a sale if some gold reserves was another option. Yes the US National Debt is increasing, and a lot more than a trillion.
@Alonzo Margate: US National Debt is c$22 trillion.
@John Smith: it’s a hate feast John st Patrick’s isn’t, massive difference.. you should visit the north in and around the 12th it might open your eyes.
@Jack: But then, their capital city isn’t blighted by drug family battles and murders – on a weekly basis!
@Alonzo Margate: your correct Alonzo its on a daily basis..
@Alonzo Margate: our inept government caved in and paid unsecured bond holders and both Brian Clown and Edna Kelly accepted this madness.
Watched a small snippet on BBC last night can argue if its right or wrong or Culture or Kulture. But cant argue with the fact that vast majority who attend have been or will be involved in some level of incest in their adult life. Everything just all wrong.
No major incidents,just a few petrol bombs
It’s a strange state of affairs, when petrol bombs being thrown at police, is no longer regarded as a major incident.
The dinosaurs are still around and I thought they were extinct thousands of years ago.
An insult to loons.. Their lowlife that thrive on hatred of republicans and Ireland . Turn it around and start lighting bonfires putting union jacks and anti British stuff on the fire and watch the reaction. A United Ireland?? Don’t make me laugh it won’t happen
@Darren McCabe: Don’t we hate them too? Read the comments here…
@Darren McCabe: of course it will happen.
@@at: when He’ll freezes over
@Gus Sheridan: keeping shouting it out loud and try to convince yourself does not mean it is reality Gus, of course a UI will happen in the very near future. There will be NO hard border on this island and a UI is the only other alternative
@Gus Sheridan: do you think all the wealthy farmers of influence up the north are going to give up all their EU grants to side with a gang of knuckle draggers to try and obstruct a UI. Greed brought them here in the first place and greed will be their biggest motivation factor for a UNITED IRELAND
@@at: he’s right though…the intolerance of their culture is one reason as we see by the comments. Also what type of UI are you wishing for? You do realise there will be major concessions. SF already recognise this. A new state…most Republicans/ nationalists aren’t ready for that. Dual capitals, new flag, new anthem and who knows what else. Its not around the corner as much as you wish for it…
No law up there it seems. No major incidents? The whole thing is a feast of anarchy! Biggest hate-fest in the world.
I say if you asked the most of them how to spell orange order they wouldn’t know never mind celebrate it. Dopes!!!
And the young people ask:
“What are they marching for?”
And I ask myself the same question.
I wonder what the number of people attending the marches were? Any indication of that number dropping year on year?
It’s a strange state of affairs, when petrol bombs being thrown at police, isn’t regarded as a major incident.
Did anyone see king Billy’s profile pic? he’s burning pallets tyres and a tricolour while wearing a union jack dress. He’s gas
I say if you asked the most of them how to spell orange order they wouldn’t know never mind celebrate it.
Don’t know how they want to end sectarianism but still have these bloody parades. But Of course, it is “There Kulture”
I say if
The love of hate parade
Define major incident. Having a massive unauthorized fire on a leisure centre carpark is fairly bad
I say if you asked the most of them how to spell orange order
I’m going to burn a ton of rubbish on my back garden now. Who can stop me
I say if you asked the most of
@Jason Byrne: I’d*….
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