GREENSBORO, N.C. — After a defective software update caused a country-wide outage on Friday, some travelers are still trying to get back on track.
Flights to and from Atlanta were canceled Tuesday.
One woman at PTI said she was headed to Chicago to speak at a conference, and never even made it there before having to find a flight back.
"So I have made it not to a whole lot of places, actually a lot of places, but not where I need to be. But it has been really hectic, and the lines are really long, and people have definitely been in this position for 2, 3, 4 days at a time," Christen Smiley explained.
Families said they were just trying to get home after days of flight cancellations, and delays.
A faulty software update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused global disruptions with flights, banks, and much much more on Friday.
Airlines and airports in the United States, Europe, Australia, India and other places were reporting problems, with some flights grounded.
Tuesday, travelers are still feeling the brunt of it.
What was supposed to be a few-hour flight back home from Italy for one family, turned into a 30-hour trip due to the chaos.
The couple ended up renting a car to drive home from the Atlanta airport.
Paige Morin explained, "We were concerned about how we were going to get our baggage if we did rent a vehicle. We did get the vehicle, as we were going down there, we hear all these people who were returning from the area where they were trying to rent a car, and they were saying that there weren't any cars available. So, we apparently got very lucky with that. We left Atlanta without our baggage. We drove home overnight, uh, taking turns. I would sleep. He would drive, he would sleep. I would drive. Um, and we got home."
Lines after lines formed inside airports. People were forced to stay the night at the airport, while everyone just hoped to get home.
U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the outage.