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The report states that the incident caused around 7,000 flight cancellations over the course of five days, leading to $500M in lost revenue.

Airbus celebrated a significant milestone on Thursday, rolling out its 500th aircraft manufactured in the U.S. from the company’s facility in Mobile, Ala.

A lawyer representing Microsoft responded to Delta’s public blame of the company and CrowdStrike for IT outages, echoing CrowdStrike’s statements.

CrowdStrike attorney Michael Carlinsky said in a letter that it was misleading to say CrowdStrike was responsible for Delta’s IT decisions.

Starting next month, the newly introduced aircraft type is set to operate a handful of flights from Delta’s Minneapolis/St. Paul hub.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the CrowdStrike-Microsoft IT outages that disrupted airlines across the country on July 19 cost the company $500 million.

In an update to customers released on Wednesday, Bastian said that the airline expects to be fully recovered and operating normally on Thursday.

Delta executives told analysts to expect a “steady drumbeat” of aircraft retirements through next year as it continues to take delivery of new jets.

Citing aircraft delivery delays and normalizing attrition levels as reasons for the slowdown, airlines hired just over 3,600 pilots from January through June.

Delta Air Lines and Saudi Arabian-based start-up carrier Riyadh Air have announced a broad new strategic partnership, the first of any U.S. carrier.