Airlines struggle to get back on schedule after Atlanta fireHundreds of flights have been cancelled and long lines snaked throughout the world's largest airport as the air-travel system in the US struggled to get back on schedule after a crippling power outage in Atlanta that struck just days before the Christmas travel rush. When Delta flights were grounded last spring, it took the airline five days - and about 4000 cancelled flights - before it fully recovered. Like Sunday's outage, that April storm hit at a busy travel time when there were not many empty seats to accommodate customers from cancelled flights. American Airlines cancelled 24 departures and an equal number of arrivals, spokesman Ross Feinstein said. At Southwest Airlines, about 70 Atlanta departures out of 120 scheduled for Sunday were cancelled, an airline spokesman said in an email.

Source: Stuff December 18, 2017 18:23 UTC