Feds drop investigation into Delta’s response to 2024 IT outage

ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Transportation has dropped an investigation into Delta Air Lines.

The agency had been looking into the airline’s response to a global IT outage that stranded thousands of its passengers nearly two years ago.

In July 2024, a faulty software update caused technological havoc across the world.

Then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that the department would open an investigation into why Delta took longer to recover than other airlines.

He said the investigation would examine whether Delta’s treatment of passengers violated federal rules.