Computer outage grounds United Airlines domestic flights
Computer outage grounds United Airlines domestic flights:- United Airlines grounded its domestic flights late Sunday due to a computer outage, the airline said.
International flights were not affected.
The ground stop initially was scheduled to end at 8 p.m., NBC News reported, but United tweeted at 8:06 that it was still “working on a resolution.” The Federal Aviation Administration later extended the ground stop to 9 p.m. ET. United said the ground stop was lifted shortly after 9 p.m.
A ground stop is in place for domestic flights due to an IT issue. We’re working on a resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience.
— United (@united) January 23, 2017
U.S. officials on Sunday told NBC that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, was having issues with low bandwidth.
The airline tweeted that an “IT issue” had caused the problem.
United spokeswoman Maddie King told CNN, “We are working as quickly as possible to resolve this issue and get our customers to their final destinations. We apologize for the inconvenience to our customers.”
CNN noted that United last October had to delay flights for hours after it experienced an issue with its weight reporting system.
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— andrew_ (@nexus9988) January 23, 2017
Source:-Â http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2017/01/22/computer-outage-grounds-united-airlines-domestic-flights/96934120/
