Pilot seeks over $1 billion from Delta for knocking off his flight crew app
Jul 15, 2021, 6:04 PM 2
Back in August 2016, after a five-hour power outage forced Delta Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights costing the airline more than $150 million, Captain Craig Alexander came up with a brilliant idea for a text messaging app for flight crews. Alexander claims to have spent $100,000 of his own money and developed the QrewLive app which is designed to help flight crews communicate when issues surface after a disrupted flight.
Pilot develops app which he claims Delta stole to create its own version; lawsuit seeks more than $1 billion from the airline
Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian excoriated the suggestion by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that federal authorities might require a negative coronavirus test to fly domestically.