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The drama between CrowdStrike and Delta Airlines is heating up as the technology company faces potential suing following the mass outage in July that reportedly led to the cancellation of thousands of Delta flights.
On Sunday, CrowdStrike's attorney Michael Carlinsky reportedly wrote to Delta Airlines' attorney David Boies that Delta's threats of litigation “contributed to a misleading portrayal that CrowdStrike was responsible for Delta's IT decisions and response to the outage.”
The letter claims, according to CNBC, that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz reached out to Delta CEO Ed Bastian during the disaster to “offer on-site assistance but received no response.”
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Carlinsky also said that if Delta proceeds with the lawsuit, the airline will have to “explain to the public, its shareholders and ultimately a jury why CrowdStrike took responsibility for its actions – quickly, transparently and constructively – while Delta did not.”
Last week, Bastian spoke to Squawk Box and said that the airline had “no choice” but to demand compensation following the incident.
“We have to protect our shareholders,” Bastian said on the show. “We have to protect our customers and our employees from the damage, not only from the costs, but also from the brand damage and the reputational damage.”
The CrowdStrike update caused widespread outages on Microsoft devices and internal issues at Delta, impacting one of the airline's key crew tracking tools.
Delta reportedly suffered losses of between $350 million and $500 million during the outages and had to cancel around 7,000 flights.
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Delta has not disclosed how much compensation it would seek from CrowdStrike, and the lawsuit has not yet been formally filed. Still, Bastian told employees in an internal memo last Friday that the airline “plans to take legal action” against the technology company.
Delta Airlines reported a year-over-year decline of over 15.5% on Tuesday afternoon.
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