Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said on Monday it sued Delta Air Lines in U.S. District Court in Georgia after a faulty software update prompted a global outage in July. The July 19 incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and hit industries including banks, healthcare, media companies and hotel chains. CrowdStrike said it sued to make clear that CrowdStrike did not cause the harm that Delta claims, and that Delta repeatedly refused assistance from both CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Delta did not immediately comment on CrowdStrike's suit. CrowdStrike is seeking a declaratory judgment plus legal fees. Delta's lawsuit filed on Friday in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from CrowdStrike "catastrophic" and said the company "forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5m Microsoft Windows-based computers around the world to crash." Delta said the faulty update caused 7,000 flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3m customers and cost the carrier more than $500m. CrowdStrike's lawsuit, also filed on Friday, said Delta's own response and technology caused delays in the carrier's ability to resume normal operations. CrowdStrike's lawsuit reiterated its contention that it has minimal liability, something Delta rejected.<br/>
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2024 has undoubtedly been a year that will be remembered forever in the history of Scandinavian Airlines (SK). The Nordic airline, which had been going through a challenging financial situation since the COVID-19 pandemic, signed in October 2023 a crucial purchase agreement with the Air France-KLM Group, where the Western giant would acquire up to 19.9% of the SAS stake. As part of the agreement, SK agreed to switch alliances and join SkyTeam, founded in 2000 by Air France (AF), among other airlines. This meant that SK would have to abandon the airline alliance it created with its peers 27 years ago. Since September 1, SAS has been fully included in the SkyTeam alliance, announcing new strategic changes to adapt to its new investors' commercial and financial requirements. Story features interview with SAS's CCO, Paul Verhagen, to explain Scandinavian Airlines' financial and operational state at the end of 2024.<br/>
Vietnam Airlines has launched its non-stop flights between Cambodia's Phnom Penh and Vietnam's Hanoi, according to a press release on Monday, reported Xinhua. The inaugural flight took off from Phnom Penh International Airport on Sunday evening and landed at Noi Bai International Airport on the same day, the press release stated, adding that the non-stop flight time is only 1 hour and 55 minutes. Currently, Vietnam Airlines is the only Vietnamese airline operating direct flights between Phnom Penh and Hanoi. Previously, passengers travelling from Hanoi to Phnom Penh had to transit in Vientiane, Laos, on the airline's trans-Indochina flight.<br/>