 Grounded flights, gridlocked ports, and glitchy apps, part of a global internet outage, blamed on a faulty software update affecting Microsoft, but launched by tech company CrowdStrike, which later deployed a fix. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg monitoring the impact on travel. The secretary said as the delays work themselves out, he will lean on the airlines to make things right for passengers. We do not consider this the way we would a weather event. This is something that the airlines are responsible for.