By Utkarsh Shetti and Abhijith Ganapavaram
(Reuters) -American Airways on Tuesday lifted an hour-long floor cease of all its flights within the U.S. because of an unspecified technical difficulty, the federal aviation regulator stated, briefly disrupting Christmas journey for 1000’s of passengers.
It’s the newest technical snag to hit the trade after carriers have been hit by a worldwide tech outage tied to Microsoft (NASDAQ:)’s Azure cloud platform and a software program difficulty at cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:) earlier this 12 months.
The outage value Delta Air Strains (NYSE:) not less than $500 million.
Two years in the past, Southwest Airways (NYSE:) skilled a meltdown with its techniques through the holidays that led to 16,900 flight cancellations and stranded 2 million passengers. It was finally fined $140 million within the largest-ever civil penalty for a journey disruption.
“A technical difficulty is affecting American flights this morning. Our groups are working to resolve the problem as rapidly as doable, and we apologize to our clients for the inconvenience,” American Airways (NASDAQ:) had stated in an announcement following the bottom cease.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in an announcement referred Reuters to the airline, reiterating that the provider had reported a technical difficulty.
American operates 1000’s of flights per day to greater than 350 locations in additional than 60 nations.
Shares of the provider clawed again misplaced floor and have been marginally down earlier than the bell.
American was responding to feedback on X as quite a few customers posted there, in addition to on Bluesky and Fb (NASDAQ:).
“Hey, @AmericanAir simply inform us whether or not we should always go residence or not. Please do not make us wait within the airport for hours,” wrote one person.