American Airways on Tuesday (Dec 24) lifted an hour-long floor cease of all its flights within the US because of an unspecified technical challenge, a discover on the US aviation regulator’s web site confirmed.
The bottom cease, forward of the busy Christmas journey, had threatened the vacation plans of hundreds.
“A technical challenge is affecting American flights this morning. Our groups are working to resolve the problem as rapidly as potential, and we apologise to our prospects for the inconvenience,” the corporate had mentioned in a press release following the bottom cease.
American operates hundreds of flights per day to greater than 350 locations in additional than 60 international locations.
Shares of the service clawed again misplaced floor and have been marginally down earlier than the bell.
The US Federal Aviation Administration in a press release referred Reuters to the airline, reiterating that the service had reported a technical challenge.
American was responding to feedback on X as quite a few customers posted there, in addition to on Bluesky and Fb.
“Hey, @AmericanAir simply inform us whether or not we must always go residence or not. Please do not make us wait within the airport for hours,” wrote one person.
The grounding comes months after airways have been hit by a worldwide tech outage tied to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and a software program challenge at cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike.
Two years in the past, Southwest Airways skilled a meltdown with its programs through the holidays that led to 16,900 flight cancellations and stranded 2 million passengers. It was finally fined US$140 million within the largest-ever civil penalty for a journey disruption.
