Alaska Airlines issued a temporary ground stoppage Thursday evening amid the IT outage.
airline announced Social platform at 7:34 pm EDT
10 pm, airline Said on X that it is “actively restoring our operations” following the outage. The Hill has contacted Alaska Airlines for an update and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for comment.
According to flight-tracking site flight AwareAs of late Thursday, 241 Alaska Airlines flights were delayed, while 44 such flights were canceled. It is unclear how many of those flights were delayed or canceled due to the IT outage.
The ground halt has come as air travel has been affected amid the ongoing government shutdown. Airports across the country experienced A shortage of air traffic controllers caused a large number of delays over the weekend.
Air traffic controllers are working without pay during the shutdown.
Last month, United Airlines issued All its flights in the US and Canada were affected due to temporary ground stoppage due to connectivity issue. That same day, a technical problem affected American Airlines’ maintenance operations.
United in August issued Ground stoppages at major US airports amid technology issue. As a result, more than 1,000 flights were delayed.
The Associated Press contributed.
