Delta Air Lines said early Monday that all of its departing flights have been grounded by a global computer system outage.
"Our systems are down everywhere," it tweeted in response to disgruntled customers.
Delta (DAL), the world's second largest airline, said the problem is a power outage at its Atlanta hub, starting at about 2:30 a.m. ET.
"Large-scale cancellations are expected today," Delta said. While flights already in the air are operating normally just about all flights yet to take off were grounded. Getting information on the status of flights was particularly frustrating for passengers.
"We are aware that flight status systems, including airport screens, are incorrectly showing flights on time," said the airline. "We apologize to customers who are affected by this issue, and our teams are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
**THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY...ATL NO OUTBOUND MOVEMENT AS OF 8:03AM...****
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