American Airlines resumes flights after technical issue

American Airlines has resumed flights aft suspending its services for astir an hr connected Tuesday owed to a method contented that impacted the systems needed to merchandise its planes.

The nationwide halt was cancelled conscionable earlier 13:00 GMT, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The disruption came during 1 of the busiest question days of the twelvemonth arsenic passengers made journeys connected Christmas Eve.

In a statement, the hose said a "vendor exertion issue" had caused the contented and it was "all hands connected deck" to minimise further disruption.

"We sincerely apologise to our customers for the inconvenience this morning," the hose said.

"It's each hands connected platform arsenic our squad is moving diligently to get customers wherever they request to spell arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

Flights are inactive showing delays arsenic the hose recovers from the nationwide issue, but real-time tracking website Flightradar24 shows planes taking disconnected again astatine a fig of large US question hubs.

Passengers reported connected societal media being stuck connected the tarmac oregon astatine gates arsenic flights were impacted by the outage for astir an hour.

In a video posted connected X by a CBS newsman successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a gross cause announced a formation to Philadelphia was going to commencement boarding.

"The strategy is dilatory coming back," the cause announced from a gate.

In July, American Airlines, among different large operators, grounded flights crossed the US owed to connection issues caused by a planetary IT crash.

That nonaccomplishment - which besides affected banks and exigency services - was caused by a faulty bundle update from cybersecurity steadfast Crowdstrike.