American Airlines Flights Resume After Being Grounded by System Outage
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American Airlines says it has resumed flights on Tuesday evening after a brief grounding of its fleet of jets blamed on a “technology issue.”
The FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center issued a ground stop advisory on Tuesday, preventing American Airlines’ planes from departing on flights. Flights already in the air were unaffected by the disruption.
American Airlines representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment but announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the outage had been resolved.
“A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening,” the airline said in its post. “Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again. We put a temporary ground stop in...
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