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Report says Colonial paid ransom: As pipeline reopens, it ll take several days for a return to normal as anxious motorists line up to fill cars.
Ramon Padilla, Jim Sergent, Janet Loehrke and George Petras, USA TODAY
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6:09 pm UTC May. 13, 2021
The ransomware payment reported by Bloomberg Thursday contradicted earlier reports from sources including the Washington Post and Reuters that Colonial had refused to pay.
Bloomberg said Colonial paid on Friday, just hours after the pipeline was attacked. Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network, Bloomberg reported. Someone familiar with the company s efforts said the tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system.
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News leaked out earlier today that American Airlines made a couple of route modifications on two flights departing out of Charlotte, North Carolina, that normally fly non-stop. Each of those flights had one stop added to the flight.
Both need to stop for gas.
In trying to manage its available Jet A aviation fuel, American decided that the two flights departing out of Charlotte would leave without all the fuel needed to reach their ultimate destinations.
American Airlines is adding stops on two long-range flights out of Charlotte, North Carolina, in response to fuel supply chain disruptions caused by the shutdown of the massive Colonial Pipeline.
Motorists in Knightdale, North Carolina, on the outskirts of Raleigh, traded blows on Tuesday as frustrations boiled over in a long line for gas at a Marathon station.
Colonial Pipeline hack impacting some long-haul flights
American Airlines released a statement saying two long-haul flights out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport have been impacted due to fuel supply. Author: Emma Korynta Updated: 12:15 AM EDT May 11, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. American Airlines has confirmed the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack is impacting flights out of Charlotte.
The company released a statement saying two long-haul flights out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport have been impacted due to the fuel supply shortage. Those flights are to Honolulu and to London.
The two impacted flights will now make stops to get additional fuel along the way and are set to return to their original schedules on May 15. The flight from Charlotte (CLT) to Honolulu (HNL) will connect in Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to change aircraft, and the flight from Charlotte to London (LHR) will stop in Boston (BOS) to receive additional fuel.