For the second time in a week, a major U.S. airline grounded its fleet after its computer systems stopped working. The latest incident involved Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL), which canceled 170 flights on Sunday and another 110 on Monday because its “essential IT systems went down” over the weekend.
The issue at Delta Air Lines alone doesn’t seem suspicious — computers fail all the time. But there are two things that could lead one to wonder if there’s more to this than meets the eye.