Southwest Airlines grounds planes across country
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Several major airlines across the country grounded their planes Monday morning because of an outage with a software system. Greg Martin, a spokesman for the FAA, said the problem was with a system called Aerodata that’s produced by a vendor used by airlines to track weight and balance of a plane. Martin said the impact was “minimal” in terms of the number of planes. It affected several airlines, including Southwest, Delta, Jet Blue, according to airline officials.
“It was out earlier this morning and it should be back very quickly,” Martin said of the Aerodata system.Southwest Airlines said Monday morning it is not flying planes across the United States because of a technical problem with a vendor.In an email, Southwest Airlines said it “issued a ground stop this morning as a result of a technology outage involving a vendor that provides aircraft weight and balance data.
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