Flight Delays Reported as Computer Outage Hits Airlines
Flights were experiencing delays across the country Monday morning as several airlines dealt with a computer issue, they said online.
Many of the airlines were telling passengers who had complained on Twitter that they were dealing with a technical issue. American Airlines identified AeroData, which provides airlines with flight software
"AeroData is currently experiencing a technical issue that is impacting multiple carriers. They're working on a fix as quickly as they can," American Airlines replied to one person Monday morning.
Delta said before 7 a.m. ET that it was "experiencing a System-Wide Outage we are working diligently to get it back up and running."
Southwest told a Twitter user that tech issues were "affecting our flights system wide."
Southwest later issued a statement that its ground stop was lifted just after 7 a.m. ET, after about 40 minutes. It said that "an outage with a vendor that services multiple carriers with data used in flight planning" and noted that passengers should anticipate residual flight delays.
About a quarter of flights at airports in New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C., were delayed, according FlightAware's MiseryMap. A significant portion of flights in Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and Miami were also delayed. It wasn't immediately clear how many delays were due to the outage.
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