A series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange on Friday, an unusual cascade of failures that erupted from the US to Asia after Microsoft Corp. reported an outage across its online services.
The first glitches emerged in the US late on Thursday, blamed on a failure of Microsoft services including Azure and 365. Denver-based Frontier Airlines, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings Inc., grounded flights for over two hours and blamed issues with Microsoft’s online services. The airline lifted a nationwide pause on departures and started the process of resuming flights from 11 p.m. New York time.
