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Global IT outage temporarily grounds flights at DIA Friday morning [Video]

DENVER — A global technology outage grounded some flights at Denver International Airport early Friday morning.

“It’ll be a day that people remember and i was just unlucky to be traveling this day… Be patient today and be nice to the crew that are trying to fix the problem,” Melissa McGibbon who was traveling to Salt Lake City amid the outage, told Denver7.

DIA posted on the social media site X just after 4:15 a.m., saying economy parking lots experienced issues with dispensing tickets and the lots were closed. But garages remained open.

The economy lots reopened around an hour later.

By 5:45 a.m., travelers looking at the departures page on DIA’s website, still saw nothing updated to reflect delays due to the tech issues. It was a similar case on FlightAware.

The site only reported 95 delays and 45 cancellations in and out of DIA at 5:53 a.m.

Delta Airlines posted on the social media site X, it paused its global flight schedule Friday morning due to …

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