American Airways on Tuesday (Dec 24) grounded all its flights within the US on account of an unspecified technical concern, in keeping with the corporate and a regulatory discover, disrupting the journey plans of hundreds of passengers set to fly out for Christmas Eve.
The corporate has not stated why it was stopping all flights. Quite a few passengers had been posting on social media that their flights had been caught on the runway at numerous airports and had been now being despatched again to the gate.
“An estimated timeframe has not been supplied, however they’re making an attempt to repair it within the shortest potential time,” the corporate stated in a publish on X, responding to a query from a stranded flyer.
Shares of the provider had been down 3.8 per cent earlier than the bell. A discover on the US Federal Aviation Administration web site merely stated the corporate had requested a nationwide groundstop, with out giving a purpose.
As of seven.30am ET, American had not made a proper assertion on social media, and was solely responding to feedback on X as quite a few customers posted there, in addition to on Bluesky and Fb.
“Hey, @AmericanAir simply inform us whether or not we must always go residence or not. Please do not make us wait within the airport for hours,” wrote one consumer.
American operates hundreds of flights per day to greater than 350 locations in additional than 60 nations.
The grounding comes months after airways had been hit by a world tech outage tied to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and a software program concern at cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike.
The US FAA was not instantly out there for additional remark.
Two years in the past, Southwest Airways skilled a meltdown with its techniques throughout the holidays that led to 16,900 flight cancellations and stranded 2 million passengers. It was finally fined US$140 million within the largest-ever civil penalty for a journey disruption.
