Alaska Airlines IT Outage Disrupts Hundreds of Flights
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Alaska Airlines passengers are still reeling on Tuesday after a system-wide IT outage left thousands stranded at airports across the country.
Alaska Airlines warned of more flight disruptions on Monday after an unexpected failure of a critical piece of hardware at its data centers late Sunday forced it to halt all flights for about three hours.
A hardware failure at an Alaska Airlines data center caused a system-wide “ground stop of flights” on Sunday night, the airline said. The airline has canceled more than 150 flights at various airports, including 64 Monday morning, with additional flight disruptions expected.
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