American Airlines resumes flights after nationwide ‘technical issue’

A “technical situation” briefly disrupted American Airways flights nationwide early on Tuesday, the airline mentioned, at first of a busy Christmas Eve for vacationers across the nation.

The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned American requested a floor cease for all its flights. An hour later, American mentioned flights have been once more starting to board and the FAA lifted the nationwide floor cease.

“A vendor know-how situation briefly affected flights this morning,” American mentioned in an announcement despatched to ABC Information. “That situation has been resolved and flights have resumed.”

“We sincerely apologize to our clients for the inconvenience this morning,” the assertion added. “It’s all fingers on deck as our crew is working diligently to get clients the place they should go as shortly as attainable.”

The airline flagged “a technical situation with all American Airways flights,” in a publish to X early on Tuesday.

The publish added, “Your security is our utmost precedence, as soon as that is rectified, we’ll have you ever safely in your strategy to your vacation spot.” Replying to questions from different social media customers, the airline mentioned it was not in a position to estimate how lengthy the repair would take.

The airline wrote that it did not but have a “timeframe” however that “they’re making an attempt to repair it within the shortest attainable time.”

In an announcement despatched to ABC Information, the airline added, “Our groups are working to resolve the problem as shortly as attainable, and we apologize to our clients for the inconvenience.”

The disruption will likely be unwelcome for a document variety of People anticipated to journey throughout this vacation season. The Transportation Safety Administration mentioned it expects to display almost 40 million vacationers from Dec. 19 to Jan. 2 — a 6.2% enhance from 2023.

American Airways mentioned it was anticipating Dec. 27 and Dec. 20 to be its busiest and second-busiest days, respectively, throughout its vacation interval, which started on Dec. 18.

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ABC Information’ Ayesha Ali, Clara McMichael and Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.