 And our flight was put across one, but it's just been told that it's been cancelled. To Rome, where United GM Michael Metolo says... The captain and I have decided that there's really no point in boarding the flight if we're going to just sit on board the aircraft. Cancellations and delays, the bane of travellers at airports stretching right around the world. Tom Rivers, ABC News, at the Foreign Desk. Crowdstike says things are slowly getting back online, but it could take hours or longer to get back to normal.