{"id":38350,"date":"2019-04-01T18:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38350"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:23:03","slug":"major-us-airlines-hit-by-delays-after-technical-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38350","title":{"rendered":"Major US airlines hit by delays after technical glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"98.3530961792\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A technical glitch at an outside aviation company led to delays at major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> airlines on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A series of system-wide outages delayed flights and fired-up customer complaints on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/social-media.html\">social media<\/a> has been resolved, but it may cause some a disruption in travel plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Delays that began appearing first in Chicago, New York, Miami and Boston spread to Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the technical issue hit a number of airlines and advised travellers to contact airlines directly for flight information and updates.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines say travellers should check online for the latest updates on flights.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines said the technical issue was related to AeroData, a company that makes aircraft location and balancing technology.<\/p>\n<p>The glitch affected a few of American&#8217;s regional carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines lifted an internal ground stop at 7:05am local time (11:05 GMT) that had been implemented for about 40 minutes. The airline anticipates scattered delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some United Airlines regional carriers were hampered by the issue, which resulted in delays for select United Express flights, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>About 150 flights were affected, according to United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some flights that were affected have departed, and we&#8217;re working to get all affected flights back on schedule,&#8221; United said.<\/p>\n<p>Delta said that the outage prevented some of its Delta Connection flights from leaving on time. The airline doesn&#8217;t anticipate flight cancellations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical glitch at an outside aviation company led to delays at major United States airlines on Monday. A series of system-wide outages delayed flights and fired-up customer complaints on social media has been resolved, but it may cause some a disruption in travel plans. Delays that began appearing first in Chicago, New York, Miami&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}