Las Vegas: How tech outage is impacting casinos, airport

Friday, July 19, 2024 3:27 PM
  • Noble Brigham, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Harry Reid International Airport was full of tired, frustrated passengers as airlines faced tech outages Friday morning.

Flight Aware reported Friday morning that up to 225 flights were delayed and 81 canceled at the Las Vegas airport, while 27,075 flights were affected worldwide. American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines were all impacted.

By midmorning, FlightAware said there were 81 flight delays and 27 cancellations today at Reid while there were 30,163 worldwide and 5,728 delays within the United States.

At Reid airport, people slept on the floor with their luggage nearby and waited in long lines.