Reportedly, the airline wasn’t majorly affected by the global outage.
If you have n’t find out about theglobal technical school outage cause by cybersecurity firm Crodwstrikelast hebdomad — which resulted in countless delayed and scrub flights worldwide , the chances are two . You either live under a rock ( good-for-naught ) , or you flySouthwest .
When the outage initially disrupted the travel public ( among others ) , air hose could n’t properly ferment their rider halt - in system , which led to hold and cancellation . Six days later , US airlines have mostly recovered , and trajectory schedules are back to normal . Delta , however , is still strugglingto get back on its pes , as it is still unable to operate its crowd - trailing tool due to the outage ( other airline business do n’t utilize Crowdstrike for bunch - tracking purposes ) .
One major US airline , though , has been and still is above it all — and the internet is make out it . Southwest Airlines was reportedly never affect by the outage and has been able-bodied to vanish its planes without result . Amid all the outage - relate topsy-turvyness , this was a double-dyed opportunity for viral meme and TikToks to be born .
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" There are no plane going in or out because of the Crowdstrike outage worldwide , " study the overtext in a viral TikTok , which excruciate up 3.5 million views since it was station four 24-hour interval ago . The telecasting then proceeds to show a Southwest carpenter’s plane taking off . " [ maven emoji ] Southwest [ stars emoji , ] " reads the Modern overtext .
In another video , a traveller playfully flaunt their Southwest loyalty . " When Microsoft make a national system outage but you ’re flying Southwest , " read the overtext . In the video , a traveler is prove walk through the airport while many cameras are scud , as if they were a fame being photograph . " daughter this is me ! I fly out Sunday morning ! " reads one remark underneath the video . " No issues ! ! Everyone else was in shambles , " reply the original poster .
It ’s only innate to marvel why that was the case — and the cyberspace try out to playfully excuse that part as well . " Southwest [ is ] still vanish cause its host are two T - Mobile Sidekicks taped together , " jokes one exploiter on X , implying that Southwest ’s technology is outdated .
On X , another user claimed to have reset the enigma . " Delta , United , American Airlines flight of steps are all grounded ripe now,“they sharedon July 19 , the first Clarence Shepard Day Jr. of the global outage . " The grounds Southwest is not affected is because they still range on Windows 3.1 . "
While that would give credit to superannuated engineering speculation , the claim that Southwest runs on a variant of Windows that is too old to even be impacted was found to be , in fact , false . AsABCNews report , it all has to do with Crowdstrike . Reportedly , Southwest Airlines ( together with Alaska Airlines ) does not use Crowdstrike , so the outage did n’t majorly impact it .
out-of-date technology or not , Southwest came out on top — and the cyberspace is thankful . One TikTok user , for example , did n’t hold back on their praises for the airline : " No computing machine bug here , " reads their picture ’s subtitle while " Holding Out for a Hero " by Bonnie Tyler play as a Southwest planer is shown regularly going through the luggage boarding process .
