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The company also
said about 90 cancellations were expected at the beginning of
Wednesday, and normal operations would resume later.
"We ... are working hard to achieve a normal operation by
mid-day tomorrow," Delta's senior vice president for operations
and customer center, Dave Holtz, said in an update posted on its
website late Tuesday night.
The company said it would extend its travel waiver and its offer
of compensation to travelers affected by the cancellations on
Tuesday.
Delta, the No.2 U.S. airline by passenger traffic, had said that
as of 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 GMT) Tuesday it canceled about 680
flights, while about 2,400 had departed. That's on top of about
1,000 flights it canceled on Monday, stranding passengers at
airports around the globe.
Delta's problems arose after a switchgear, which helps control
and switch power flows like a circuit breaker in a home,
malfunctioned for reasons that were not immediately clear,
according to Georgia Power, a Southern Co unit that provides
electricity to most counties in Georgia.
(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by
Gopakumar Warrier)
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