Updated at 8:40 pm Pacific.
Alaska Airlines says it is recovering from an IT outage and is “actively restoring operations.” Thursday until 7 p.m After about three hours of grounding flights across the United States
In a statement sent to GeekWire, Alaska said the outage began around 3:30 p.m. with a failure at the company’s primary data center.
Alaska Airlines
“The IT outage affected several of our key systems that enable us to conduct various operations, requiring the implementation of ground stops to keep our aircraft in position,” the company said. “The safety of our flights has never been compromised.”
The outage was not related to a cybersecurity event or other events, according to Alaska.
Flights are resuming but passengers are facing long delays at some airports as they wait for inbound flights.
Passengers during outages Reddit It was reported that some planes were sitting on the tarmac or de-boarding. Customers too Report Issues with company apps and websites.
It was Alaska’s second outage in three months. The Seattle-based airline grounded flights in July after an outage that lasted about three hours.