Delta Air Lines Executive Quits Weeks After CrowdStrike Fiasco

Published on August 23, 2024

Delta Air Lines’ executive vice president and chief operating officer is leaving the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday. In the filing, Delta said the departure of Vice President Michael Spanos will become official on Aug. 31. Spanos, who has been in the airline industry for just over a year, previously worked at PepsiCo, the Pepsi Bottling Group, and was the former CEO of Six Flags Entertainment. The decision comes more than a month after cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike performed a faulty security software update in July that led to global outages affecting up to 8.5 million Microsoft Windows users....