What is the status on Delta?
Medallion Status Benefits Each of our 4 Medallion Tiers — Diamond, Platinum, Gold, and Silver — delivers an added level of service, exclusivity and rewards offered only by Delta that elevate your journey at every turn. You earn Delta Medallion status by earning enough Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQDs) for each tier. In Delta’s status universe, you can’t game the system by taking several long, cheap flights (as you can on Alaska Airlines) because you’ll need to reach the minimum number of MQDs for each tier.
Is Delta Airlines affected by its outage?
Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that the company had to manually reboot about 40,000 servers during the outage. He said Delta was affected more than its competitors because it relied more heavily on CrowdStrike and Microsoft. CrowdStrike disputed this claim. Delta Air Lines was hit the hardest, while American Airlines and United Airlines also were impacted. The incident led to Delta suing the cybersecurity firm. The CrowdStrike outage last summer was felt around the world.