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American Airlines flights resume after outage
Normal service has been resumed after American Airlines’ entire flight network was momentarily grounded Sunday afternoon.
Flights are back in the air and running as normal after a short ground stop was imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA said no flights took off anywhere for more than 40 minutes Sunday afternoon due to a technical outage in the airline’s main operating system.
The airline said it ‘experienced a brief connectivity issue’ and while there were a few delays, no flights needed to be canceled.
It hasn’t disclosed exactly what caused the glitch in one of its data centers.
"All is back to normal and, thankfully, there were no cancelations as a result of the issue," AA spokesperson Michelle Mohr said once the FAA gave the green light to restart flights.
American said this incident was not related in any way with last month’s prolonged IT problems at subsidiary PSA Airlines which caused the cancelation of about 3,000 flights over several days.
That cost American about $35 million in lost revenue.
Regional carrier SkyWest Airlines also suffered a brief unrelated IT outage on Sunday, causing some delays.
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