US airline company Delta says all its departing flights have been suspended due to a nationwide system outage.
Customers have been informed that they should check the status of their flights before heading to the airport while the issue is being resolved. The management of the airline says It is working to resolve the problem as soon as possible. Inbound flights however are not affected.
Delta serves nearly 180 million customers a year, employing over 80,000 people, according to its website.
It has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and began in the 1920s as a crop-dusting company where it has progressed to one of the premier airlines in the world.
One passenger tweeted that he was waiting with “several hundred” fellow stranded passengers at San Francisco airport, after being asked to leave a plane he had already boarded.
“We were ordered off the lane after approximately an hour or more,” said another passenger.
“Tempers are starting to get just a little bit strained at this point,” he added. “They aren’t able to rebook anyone on other carriers.”
Few more details have been given by the company but Delta has been responding to unhappy customers on Twitter and other media platforms apologizing and assuring the situation is being dealt with.
