Overview
- Delta said Detroit connectivity problems were resolved and flights began resuming around 9:15 a.m. after an early‑morning ground stop.
- The FAA replaced the ground stop with a ground delay, with average waits near two hours and forty minutes and restrictions listed into the evening.
- Delta issued a waiver for customers traveling to, from, or through DTW on Dec. 5–6 that allows rebooking under specified terms through Dec. 9.
- The disruption affected only Delta and its subsidiaries at DTW’s McNamara Terminal, and other airlines at the airport reported normal operations.
- Long lines formed as hundreds of passengers faced check‑in issues, and officials said the root cause remains under review with no confirmed link to a separate Cloudflare outage.