CrowdStrike Denies Responsibility for Delta Cancelations, Says Airline Declined Offers of 'Onsite Assistance'

The play is heating up betwixt CrowdStrike and Delta Airlines amid a imaginable lawsuit against nan exertion institution aft July's mass outage that allegedly led to nan cancelation of thousands of Delta flights.

On Sunday, CrowdStrike's lawyer Michael Carlinsky reportedly wrote to Delta Airlines' lawyer David Boies that Delta's threats of a suit "contributed to a misleading communicative that CrowdStrike is responsible for Delta's IT decisions and consequence to nan outage."

The missive alleged that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz reached retired to Delta CEO Ed Bastian amid nan disaster to "offer onsite assistance, but received nary response," per CNBC.

Related: Read nan Memo from CrowdStrike Explaining Massive IT Outage

Carlinsky besides said that should Delta spell guardant pinch nan lawsuit, nan hose would person to "explain to nan public, its shareholders, and yet a assemblage why CrowdStrike took work for its actions—swiftly, transparently, and constructively—while Delta did not."

Last week, Bastian said to "Squawk Box" and said that nan hose had "no choice" but to activity damages pursuing nan incident.

"We person to protect our shareholders," Bastian said connected nan show. "We person to protect our customers, our employees, for nan damage, not conscionable to nan costs of it, but to nan brand, nan reputational damage."

The CrowdStrike update caused wide outages connected Microsoft-run devices and soul issues astatine Delta, affecting 1 of nan airline's apical crew-tracking tools.

Delta reportedly lost betwixt $350 cardinal and $500 cardinal during nan outages and canceled astir 7,000 flights.

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Delta has not disclosed really overmuch it would activity successful compensation from CrowdStrike, and nan suit has not yet officially been filed. Still, Bastian told labor via an soul memo past Friday that nan hose was "planning to prosecute ineligible claims" against nan tech company.

Delta Airlines was down complete 15.5% year-over-year arsenic of Tuesday afternoon.