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American Airlines briefly halts U.S. flights after IT issue

The airline's planes were temporarily prevented from taking off nationwide on Tuesday.
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American Airlines flights were briefly grounded on Thursday, with a nationwide ground stop preventing them from taking off. The company has now issued a statement attributing the disruption to an IT issue.

The ground stop was issued at approximately 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT, and appears to have impacted all American Airlines flights within the U.S. at the time. The company has over 1000 planes in its fleet, and is the biggest airline in the U.S. by capacity.

Fortunately, the issue was quickly resolved, with American Airlines stating that flights had resumed less than an hour after the ground stop began. According to the airline, an IT issue was to blame. 

"A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening," the official American Airlines X account posted at 7:21 p.m. ET / 4:21 p.m. PT on Tuesday evening. "Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again. We put a temporary ground stop in place while our teams worked to resolve the issue. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience."

Exactly what said technology issue was has not been disclosed, however it does not appear to have posed a danger to ongoing flights. A ground stop is a standard measure used to manage aircraft traffic, and can be issued for incidents such as severe weather, significant equipment outages, or to prevent gridlock at an airport. As of writing, there are multiple ground stops at airports across the U.S. due to thunderstorms.

Even so, a nationwide ground stop is less common. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) states that ground stops are one of the most restrictive traffic management methods, and that alternatives must first be considered before one is issued.


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  1. Did they switch it off and back on again? 😄 or maybe blocked all the AI?

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  2. تعرف على حل لغز مثلث برمودة من اكتشاف أبي منقذ أسامة ابن فاطمة الزهراء المكلف بإنقاذ الناس من قبل الإمام جعفر الصادق عليه السلام:-
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/34x86mmbexykg3u/Arabic.pdf/file
    قال لي الامام جعفر الصادق عندما كنت في الجنة مشيراً الى كوكب الارض:- إذهب لتنقذ الناس.
    ,
    In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful
    Learn about the solution to the Bermuda Triangle puzzle from the discovery of Abu Munqith Usama son of Fatima Alzahra’, who was charged with saving people by Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq, peace be upon him:-
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/1j0vdnpyvv6prw1/English.pdf/file
    Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq said to me when I was in Paradise, pointing to planet Earth: "Go and save the people."
    ,
    به نام خداوند بخشنده ترین مهربان
    راه حل معمای مثلث برمودا را از کشف ابومنقذ اسامه بن فاطمه الزهرا که توسط امام جعفر صادق علیه السلام مأمور نجات مردم شده بود، بیاموزید:-
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/qtzzx2k3g68omle/Farsi.pdf/file
    امام جعفر صادق وقتی در بهشت ​​بودم، در حالی که به زمین اشاره می‌کرد، به من فرمود: «برو و مردم را نجات بده.»
    ,
    Nel nome di Dio, il più misericordioso, il più compassionevole
    Scopri la soluzione del puzzle del Triangolo delle Bermuda dalla scoperta di Abu Munqith Usama figlio di Fatima Alzahra’, incaricato di salvare persone dall'Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq, la pace sia con lui: -
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/uv2yw72q2p2lemj/Italiano.pdf/file
    L'Imam Jaafar al-Sadiq mi disse, mentre mi trovavo in Paradiso, indicando il pianeta Terra: "Vai e salva l'umanità".
    ,
    Во имя Бога, Милостивого, Милосердного
    Узнайте разгадку тайны Бермудского треугольника, найденную Абу Мункидом Усамой ибн Фатимой аз-Захрой, которому имам Джафар ас-Садик (мир ему) поручил спасать людей:
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/zzucrnkoakcuy19/Russian.pdf/file
    Когда я был в Раю, имам Джафар ас-Садик сказал мне, указывая на Землю: «Иди и спаси людей».,
    ,
    Хамгийн нигүүлсэнгүй, хамгийн өршөөнгүй Бурханы нэрээр.
    Имам Жа'фар ас-Садик (түүнд энх тайван байх болтугай)-ын хүмүүсийг аврах үүрэг даалгавар өгсөн Абу Мункид Усама ибн Фатима аз-Захрагийн нээсэн Бермудын гурвалжингийн нууцын шийдлийг нээгээрэй:
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/ikzq2skpqz8yrcc/Mongolian.pdf/file
    Имам Жа'фар ас-Садик диваажинд байхдаа надад Дэлхий гариг ​​руу заагаад: "Явж, хүмүүсийг авраарай" гэж хэлсэн.,
    ,
    Au nom de Dieu, le Tout Miséricordieux, le Très Miséricordieux.
    Découvrez la solution au mystère du Triangle des Bermudes, découverte par Abou Munqidh Oussama ibn Fatima al-Zahra, chargé par l'Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (que la paix soit sur lui) de sauver des vies :
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/dw5xk7nevrvqse3/French.pdf/file
    L'Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq m'a dit, alors que j'étais au Paradis, en désignant la Terre : « Va sauver les hommes.»,
    , and
    En el nombre de Dios, el Clemente, el Misericordioso.
    Descubre la solución al misterio del Triángulo de las Bermudas, descubierta por Abu Munqidh Usama ibn Fatima al-Zahra, a quien el Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (la paz sea con él) encomendó la misión de salvar a la gente:
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/y2wj13mo57tq1hf/Spanish.pdf/file
    Mientras estaba en el Paraíso, el Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq me dijo, señalando la Tierra: «Ve y salva a la gente».

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  3. Contratações duvidosas. Uma hora a conta chega...

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  4. Ai wingtips? 🫠😁

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  5. Literally at the gate

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  6. AA IS LITERALLY THE WORST AIRLINE IN USA. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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  7. Overall, AA sucks at service and at all….

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  8. This is bc their Boeing not airbus

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  9. @americanair hire me if you don't want this happening again.

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  10. IT again 🫩🫩

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  11. Aircraft mechanic here, people need to stop this train of “We deserve an explanation or we deserve this and that” Aviation is a big delicate industry, meaning you’re literally trusting your LIFE to this airlines, our job consists of SAFETY first and let me tell you something, life is not perfect and there’s things we cannot control, weather, IT problems (since reliability is completely on computer and technology now, this are regular machines that won’t work perfectly all year long) and sometimes personnel shortages (meaning you decide deliberately call out sick today)

    All that said I am sick and tired of all this little instagramers and YouTubers, making profit out of spreading gossip and news from their comfort of their bed/sofa about topics they have very little knowledge.

    In aviation WE work a lot, we give our personal lives, relationships, weekends, early mornings and late nights, just to get this unconscious comments from people who wouldn’t last a day doing all we do.

    But more sad is to see how our society encourages this behavior, not only in aviation, entertainment, service industry and hospitality, people demand so much, not understanding that everything that you get there’s people behind working really hard and are not trying to sabotage your trip or life.

    But Einstein said himself “The World is rule by stupidity, fear, and greed.

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  12. Are they using T-Mobile?

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  13. I flew today on American and my final flight landed at 6 pm on time, no problems for us 🙏😂

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  14. Ah just another day at AA😂

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  15. Please fix those wings 😩🙏🏻 it’s painful to watch… poor little 319 😂

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  16. The BOS delay and the entire NE was due too terrible weather completely unrelated probably to the IT issue

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  17. The folded wings lmao😭

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  18. What are you talking about I still see American flights on the radar

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  19. Watch people find a way to blame boeing

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  21. https://imgur.com/a/bP5ZAMm

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  22. Lol... all I know is staff was as helpful as they could be.. what more info do people want other than the system is down and it's being addressed..

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  23. Ah I was wondering why we where sitting at DCA on the taxi way for like 3 hours

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  24. AA141 LHR to JFK cancelled as a result. The inbound flight landed just now 😭✌️🥀

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  25. My flight was cancelled bc of this. 😭

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  26. what's that winglet bro

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  27. 20 seconds ago is toe tickling.

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  28. it stop? more like diddy, stop😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹☦️😹😹😹😹😹😹😹☦️😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹☦️😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

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  29. Hopefully they are giving out free drinks

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  30. lmao, nothing new

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  31. American has this two to three times a year. Like get it together

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  32. T-Mobile yesterday, the airlines today..

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  33. Dang, was hoping it wouldn't recover...

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  34. One of the worst airlines in the world. I had always had delays my flights experience. I never fly again .it’s not only weather..

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  35. Someone forgot to include the configuration files again lol

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  36. The problem was, "IT ain't me, IT wasn't me either...who the heck is IT then?"

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  37. They just needed to reboot and restart windows 🤣😂

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  38. I was on a plane in Phoenix that night when the pilot announced that due to the IT problem our departure would be delayed to allow passengers from connecting flights to make it onto our flight. Even so we arrived in San Jose close to the scheduled time.

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  39. It’s interesting how a small IT glitch can impact so many flights glad everything's back on track now! Have you ever experienced something similar with travel disruptions?

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  40. The safest part of the flight was apparently not being able to take off

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  41. It was the 2 tornados around the Ohare airport yesterday. Not IT

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  42. All their systems go thru data centers that people say we don't need.

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  43. My God, in 2002 the coronavirus was developed into a biological weapon. And yes doctor Fauci's name is all over the patents and the research Etc starting approximately in 1999 to present, so is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For doctor Fauci and our government to say that the corona virus came from a wet Market has to be the biggest lie ever told to civilization.They have been engineering the virus for 56 years And every step is documented and patented! Dr Fauci and NIAID Are directly responsible for the Covid pandemic ! Coronavirus as a Replicatable pathogen was Isolated and established in 1965 In the lab. It was known in 1965 that it could be weaponized, In 1966 it was used for human manipulation. In 1967 they were doing human trials for inoculation to the Coronavirus .In 1990 Pfizer filed the first patent for a vaccine. Since then there has been over 3,600 patents and guess what from 1990 to 2018 they found that not one single vaccine worked because coronavirus mutates too fast. The pandemic was either caused by an accidental release or an intentional release , Those are the unambiguous facts and this video documents it at the International Covid Summit ! All the documentation that's been published since 1965 to present was released at The Summit. The proverbial Smoking Gun has been produced. Here is the Covid Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLycFHBsro&t=2s

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  44. The final exit is you
    https://youtu.be/KO5bdCe4YeU?si=zXFmL6Ch5BTpzzHL

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  45. Israhell can bring America to a halt. Woooi kwisha nyinyi. You're finished.

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  46. Is it just me, or dont understand whats an it?

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  47. Technology can really disrupt everything.

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  48. Isn’t technology great 🙄

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  49. Interesting….since a church group traveling home from Africa traveling for over 30 hours was told they were stuck at the O’Hare airport for weather related issues then refused to give them any sort of vouchers, forcing them to rent a large van to drive six hours home, past home technically to pick up their luggage at the airport in Minneapolis….not ok…

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  50. More like a customer service problem. THE worst airline i ever flew. Dumped us in PHL overnight at a closed airport because their pilots needed beauty sleep and didn't have the decency to have someone help us with accommodations... never again...

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  51. My daughter had a heck of a time getting home on American had a Chicago last night. I’m thinking maybe it started before today.

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  52. American Airlines is a joke

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  53. This happen to my flight just a week ago!! Delay delayed delayed then flight cancelled

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  54. Fauci diary? Not interested Fake Jake?

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  55. American Airlines is actually America west they move to do everything in the cheap. I miss the old American Airlines I am a million mile member with the old American Airlines I am always horrified when I fly them now it’s so downgraded

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    1. I knew this would happen the day they announced that America West was buying AA.

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  56. Causing the death of over 500000 men in Russia! Faced with this epic failure! Is this patriotism by the Russian President? Or harm the country?

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  58. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2797ea07-a566-477c-b39a-ed105042fc5b/gif#6Zsyap5F.copy

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  59. 😍💜😍💜💜😍💜😍💜😍💜😍💜😍💜😍💜😍💜💜😍💜😍💜😍

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  60. Another win for AI programming?

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    1. I was coming here to say the same thing.

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  61. Cent Com reports incoming missiles.

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  62. July end is always a problem

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  63. Not breaking, hit the net a while ago

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  64. IT issue? what kinda IT issue could cause this? they dont wanna say malware in critical flight systems? they got hacked bad right?

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  65. One of the worst airlines in the world. I had always had delays my flights experience. I never fly again .it’s not only weather.

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  66. AA hired Ganesh Jayaram as their Chief Digital and Information Officer a few years ago. Before this job, he trashed John Deere. Around 2024, he outsourced all AA IT to India (where he is originally from). He started his reign of terror at Boston Consulting Group. Wonder what the cost of a systemwide ground stop is? Will it come out of his bonus?

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  67. This has become SO COMMON, because I am convinced our airports are hard targets for constant cyber attacks that disrupt their critical systems.

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  68. They are notoriously bad with musicians’ guitars too. Many of their baggage handlers seem to enjoy smashing them, even while the instruments are in a heavy duty travel case which makes it appear to be deliberate. These cases are made to withstand the rigors of travel yet many times show up completely smashed.

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