EPAAmerican Airways has resumed flights after suspending its providers for round an hour on Tuesday because of a technical situation that impacted the methods wanted to launch its planes.
The nationwide halt was cancelled simply earlier than 13:00 GMT, in line with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The disruption got here throughout one of many busiest journey days of the yr as passengers made journeys on Christmas Eve.
In an announcement, the airline mentioned a “vendor know-how situation” had brought about the problem and it was “all fingers on deck” to minimise additional disruption.
“We sincerely apologise to our prospects for the inconvenience this morning,” the airline mentioned.
“It is all fingers on deck as our crew is working diligently to get prospects the place they should go as shortly as doable.”
Departure boards at main US airports are nonetheless displaying delays of as much as two hours for some flights because the airline recovers from the nationwide situation, however real-time monitoring web site Flightradar24 reveals planes taking off once more at a variety of main US journey hubs and most flights are departing on time.
Passengers reported on social media being caught on the tarmac or at gates as flights have been impacted by the outage for round an hour.
Some passengers have been additionally instructed to disembark from their planes.
In a video posted on X by a CBS reporter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a gate agent introduced a flight to Philadelphia was going to start out boarding.
“The system is slowly coming again,” the agent introduced from a gate.
In July, American Airways, amongst different main operators, grounded flights across the US because of communication points brought on by a world IT crash.
That failure – which additionally affected banks and emergency providers – was brought on by a defective software program replace from cybersecurity agency Crowdstrike.
