Delta flyers deal with travel headaches at Piedmont Triad International Airport amid outage [Video]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Rodney Myers has been trying to catch a Delta Airlines flight from the Piedmont Triad International Airport to Minnesota for a work trip, but last week’s computer glitch meant he hit a roadblock.

“I understand that it happens, but it also shows how dependent we are on software,” Myers said.

On the flight information board inside the airport, two flights to Atlanta were canceled Tuesday evening.

Some passengers who did make it back to the Triad said the return home wasn’t easy, including Greensboro native Jonel Howard.

The outage started last Thursday night after a faulty software upgrade from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to more than 8 million Microsoft computers around the world.

Since the outage started, Delta has canceled more than 6,600 flights, including nearly 500 on Tuesday by midday on the East Coast.​

The cancelations prompted an investigation into the airline company by Transportation Secretary …