Travelers wait in line, as a flight board shows delays, on the check-in floor of the Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
CrowdStrike on Sunday said Delta Air Lines had rejected onsite help during last month's massive outage that sparked thousands of flight cancellations.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week that the mass cancellations following the outage, which occurred at one of the busiest times of the year, cost the company about $500 million, including customer compensation.
In response, Michael Carlinsky, CrowdStrike lawyer and co-managing partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan wrote to Delta's lawyer David Boies on Sunday that Delta's litigation threats "contributed to a misleading narrative that CrowdStrike is responsible for Delta's IT decisions and response to the outage."
He said CrowdStrike's CEO George Kurtz reached out to Bastian to "offer onsite assistance, but received no response."
Persons:
CrowdStrike, Ed Bastian, CNBC's, Bastian, Boies Schiller, Michael Carlinsky, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, Sullivan, David Boies, George Kurtz
Organizations:
Delta Air Lines, Los Angeles International Airport, Microsoft
Locations:
Los Angeles , California