My flight was cancelled? How do you check if you are affected by the Microsoft outage?

Nearly all major airlines and many major international airports are currently experiencing massive delays due to an outage at CrowdStrike, a key software system that protects most major industries from security threats.

Did the CrowdSrike outrage affect your flight? Here’s how to find out.

Has my flight been cancelled?

When major airports like Newark or JFK in New York have major delays, it messes up flights everywhere. Planes may have to circle around or land at different airports, which also causes those airports to become full and delayed.

Flights that can’t depart on time cause other flights to be delayed. In addition, crew members may be overworked and need to be replaced, which slows things down even more.

This domino effect spreads and causes delays throughout the aviation system, creating a huge headache for everyone.

Fortunately, the major airports in the Mid-Atlantic region make it fairly easy to check for cancellations and delays via their websites:

Delaware Airport:

Airports in New Jersey:

Airports in New York:

Airports in Pennsylvania:

CrowdStrike outage halts domestic flights

According to flight tracking service FlightAware, there were nearly 20,000 delayed flights and nearly 2,000 canceled flights as of Friday morning, most of which involved international carriers such as Chinese Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines.

But domestic flights are also being affected, as FlightAware reports, Southwest Airlines had 454 delays through Friday morning. Delta Airlines was among the carriers also reporting delays and cancellations.

CrowdStrike says source of outage identified, denies cyberattack

CrowdStrike management has sent an alert to X to inform customers and quell rumors of a cyberattack.

“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” CrowdStrike President and CEO George Kurtz’s post reads in part. “The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been implemented.”

Damon C. Williams is a Philadelphia-based journalist who covers trending topics in the Mid-Atlantic region.