US EditionUS FAA issues ground stop for United Airlines flights due to tech issue
United Airlines briefly halted all U.S. and Canadian departures due to a technical glitch, causing 14 cancellations and 189 delays, FAA and FlightAware reported.
- The FAA ordered a temporary halt to United departures at U.S. and Canadian airports on Tuesday after the airline requested the pause, then allowed operations to resume.
- United said it experienced a brief connectivity issue just before midnight Central on Tuesday, which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called an `internal tech outage`.
- The ground stop began just before 1 a.m. EDT and ended at 1:33 a.m. EDT, with FlightAware reporting 14 cancellations and 189 delays by Wednesday afternoon.
- It was the second time in two months United grounded mainline flights, following a tech disruption just over a month after the Aug. 6 ground stop at multiple U.S. airports.
- In July, United grounded all flights for roughly three hours after an IT outage, and Alaska Airlines recently grounded its fleet over a weight-and-balance system issue, showing industry precedent.
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United Airlines briefly grounds flights across US and Canada due to technical glitch
United Airlines briefly halted departures at US and Canadian airports on Wednesday morning due to a technological issue, prompting a short FAA-imposed ground stop. The pause lasted less than an hour, and flights have since resumed with no further disruptions.
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