 Michelle Franzen, the global IT outage being fixed, but the problems caused by the faulty Microsoft update will take longer to fix for tens of thousands of businesses. The most visible industry affected, airlines. 2,500 flights canceled today in the U.S. At airports around the country, check-in areas have become like campsites for families and other stranded travelers trying to get flights out, including this man who could have a cruise ship leaving without him.