Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after an data know-how drawback pressured hundreds of its flights to be grounded Thursday night time.
A floor cease for all Alaska Airlines flights and flights of its subsidiary, Horizon Air, was lifted at 11:30 p.m. PT, the airline stated in a statement. The floor cease was requested by the airline about eight hours earlier because the IT outage started, the FAA stated.
“We are working to get our operations back on track as quickly and safely as possible,” the airline stated, noting greater than 229 flights had been canceled throughout the outage. “Additional flight disruptions are likely as we reposition aircraft and crews throughout our network.”
The airline didn’t instantly say what prompted the outage.
One traveler in Austin, Texas, stated the Alaska Airlines gates had been “jammed” Thursday night time as delays piled up.
“Some passengers have been allowed to leave the plane since it’s been over an hour,” passenger Mike Cully informed NCS of a delay impacting his flight to Portland. “Crews here still with no update only to say that nothing has been officially canceled and they’re still counting on system to come back up,” Cully said on X.
Alaska Airlines had a similar outage in July and one after a techniques improve in April of 2024.
Alaska is the fifth largest US airline and flies 44 million passengers every year to 120 locations in 5 international locations, accoring to its web site.