American Airlines is back in the air.
- American Airlines flights were cleared to fly by federal regulators early Tuesday after a brief grounding due to systemwide technical issue that impacted all U.S. routes.
Just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all American Airlines flights grounded in the U.S. at the airline’s request. American had reported a technical issue affecting its entire system with millions traveling for the holiday.American has not expanded on what technical issue grounded the flights and the airline did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The groundings couldn’t come at a worse time for the millions of travelers expected to fly over the next 10 days.Many flights during the holidays are sold out, which makes cancellations even more disruptive than during slower periods. Even with just a brief outage, the cancellations have a cascading effect that can take days to clear up.
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