FAA briefly grounds all American Airlines flights over IT outage

The outage lasted under an hour and didn’t affect flights that had already departed.“A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening. Connectivity has been fully restored. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience. We appreciate the efforts of our team to bring our systems back online so quickly and take care of our customers,” American Airlines said in a statement. Though the ground stop was brief, the ripple effect of halting all planes from such a large carrier will take some time to fully dissipate.AMERICAN AIRLINES ISSUES APOLOGY AFTER ENRAGED OHIO LAWMAKER SAYS DELAYS CAUSED MISSED VOTES: ‘TRULY SORRY’The delays compound significant delays due to storms that have grounded and delayed flights across the country.American Airlines has faced similar IT troubles in the past, including a localized disruption in 2013 and a nationwide ground stop in 2018. Like the recent grounding, the 2018 outage was resolved in under an hour.