PHOTOS: Microsoft outage grounds planes at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

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PHOTOS: Microsoft outage grounds planes at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

Passengers crowd at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday as a global IT outage impacts airlines and airports.

Passengers crowd the Terminal North check-in area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday as a global IT outage impacts airlines and airports. (John Spink / AJC)

Crowds began to fill Terminal North at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport early Friday morning as a global Microsoft outage hit airlines. (John Spink / AJC)

Passengers began to fill Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport early Friday morning as a global Microsoft outage hit airlines. (John Spink / AJC)

Tanya Williams (center) from Atlanta hopes to make it to Vegas on Friday as a global IT outage impacts airlines and airports, including Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. (John Spink / AJC)

Passengers began to fill Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport early Friday morning as a global Microsoft outage hit airlines. (John Spink / AJC)

Passengers began to fill Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport early Friday morning as a global Microsoft outage hit airlines. (John Spink / AJC)

Ben Tam Jr. (left) -14 and his sister Bethany Tam-12 (right), of Las Vegas, wait at the Frontier counter with their parents Benjamin and Kari and brother David, 9, in the background. The family is stranded at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as a global IT outage impacts airlines and airports. (John Spink / AJC)

U.S. airlines including Delta, United and American have grounded flights, and airlines and airports across the globe are affected.

For several hours, Atlanta based Delta ground its entire global flight schedule. Just before 8 a.m., Delta said some flight operations had resumed.

At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, long lines stretched from check-in counters for some airlines, including Delta and Frontier Airlines.

Airport staff were deployed for crowd control.

Hartsfield-Jackson spokesman Andrew Gobeil said passengers should get to the airport at least 2-2.5 hours before their flights. “We’re really going to recommend that today because there could be some impacts during the travel period throughout the day.”

In a statement, the Atlanta airport said it “is working with its partners to mitigate any operational challenges.”

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Passengers crowd the Terminal North check-in area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday as a global IT outage impacts airlines and airports. (John Spink / AJC)

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