After IT failure: Alaska Airlines suspends flight operations for hours
On Monday night, Alaska Airlines aircraft were unable to take off for hours due to software problems. These have since been rectified.
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Alaska Airlines from the USA canceled the take-offs of all its own aircraft for several hours on Sunday evening (local time) due to a software problem. According to a post on the short news platform X, the problem has since been resolved and operations were resumed at 8 a.m. CEST, allowing the planes to take off again. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the temporary suspension of flight operations initially affected over 200 aircraft, and later aircraft from the subsidiary Horizon Air were also unable to fly. There is no further information on the background to this so far.
Flight operations not yet back to normal
The airline announced on social media at 10 pm local time (7 am CEST) that an IT failure was affecting its own operations and that flight operations had been temporarily suspended. The airline apologized for the inconvenience. Anyone about to fly with Alaska Air should please check the flight status "before you go to the airport". An hour later, the all-clear went online, saying that the lockdown had now been lifted. Nevertheless, the disruption will continue to have consequences and it will take some time "until overall operations have returned to normal".
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Alaska Airlines is not based in the state of the same name, but in the US state of Washington near Seattle. The airline mainly flies to airports in the USA, on the west coast of Canada and in Central America. According to its own website, Alaska Airlines uses 238 Boeing aircraft of various types and 87 from the manufacturer Embraer. A year and a half ago, part of the fuselage of one of the airline's aircraft was torn out during a flight, after which the Boeing 737 Max returned to the airport of departure. It is not yet clear when further information will be available on the background to the current suspension of flight operations.
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