As times goes on, the presence of flight patterns begins to rapidly decrease as more and more flights were grounded by major airlines in airports across the country.

Flight updates and check-in monitors at airports worldwide displayed the blue screen of death, a critical error screen indicating that Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems have crashed and are not in operation.

The airlines with the highest rate of cancellations and delays so far are Delta and American, with the former experiencing 331 cancellations and 194 delays.

But several airlines are beginning to slowly come back online, such as Delta who said in its most recent update that it has resumed some flight departures but clarified that additional delays and cancellations are expected.

American Airlines said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that it had restored service as of 5am on Friday.

United Airlines said on X that some flights were resuming as of 3.30am, adding that it was offering waivers for customers to change their travel plans to account for the delays caused by the outage.

Grounded flights are not the only entities impacted by the global technology outage caused by a faulty software update, as banks, media outlets, hospitals, small businesses and other services were also hit.