Delta on long road back to normal after flight cancellations

Atlanta

DELTA Air Lines faces a "time-consuming process" to restore normal operations and get stranded passengers to their destinations after a power outage caused more than 1,600 flight cancellations over two days, a top executive said on Tuesday.

The events underscore how it can take days for airlines to reboot operations after a brief outage or storm. "When Delta doesn't fly aircraft, not only do customers not get to their destination, but flight crews don't get to where they are scheduled to be," Delta's chief operating officer, Gil West, said on Tuesday in an online posting.