Alaska Airlines hangs its flights due to a computer failure

Alaska Airlines announced on Monday the resumption of all its flights. However, as well as those of its subsidiary Horizon Air. In addition, The operations had been interrupted due to a computer failure on Sunday evening. Furthermore, a new setback for the fifth largest American company.

‘From 11 p.m. Furthermore, (6:00 am GMT), the ground stopping was lifted and our operations resumed’, said the company on its account X. Meanwhile, ‘While we reposition our planes and our crews, there will most likely be residual impacts on our flights. Nevertheless, It will take a while for all of our operations to return to normal ‘, specifies the text.

‘We apologize for the inconvenience caused. Consequently, encourage our customers to check the status of their flight before going to the airport,’ added the press release. Consequently, The airline told AFP until Sunday. Meanwhile, it alaska airlines hangs its flights had ‘a computer failure affecting its operations’ and that it had ‘temporary interruption, on the scale of the whole system, of all the flights of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air until the solving the problem’.

‘On July 20, around 8 p.m. (Pacific time). we experienced a computer failure which led to a temporary interruption of the flights of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air on the whole system,’ said the company in its press release announcing the resumption of flights. The company’s website has been disturbed since about 3:00 am GMT on Monday, according to specialized sites.

The initial declaration of suspension of flights, also published on X, aroused negative reactions from apparently frustrated passengers. ‘It’s brutal. We have been sitting at the airport for two hours, ‘replied an X user named Caleb Heimlich. Another user, Betterdays, commented: ‘It started at 8 p.m. and you only publish that now! Your service alaska airlines hangs its flights has deteriorated considerably over the past five years’.

This breakdown comes when a major computer attack has targeted Microsoft SharePoint servers since last week. exploiting an unknown vulnerability hitherto in the document sharing software, which Microsoft recognized on Saturday. According to the Dutch cybersecurity company Eye Security. this flaw allowed cybercriminals to compromise government agencies, universities, energy companies and international institutions, in particular in the United States.

Computer failure in September ___

The American authorities. including the FBI, opened several investigations, and Microsoft published fixes for certain versions of the software, although others still remained vulnerable on Monday. Alaska Airlines did not immediately respond to AFP’s request which wanted to know if the failure was linked to. the Microsoft problem.

In September 2024. Alaska Airlines underwent a significant computer failure in Seattle, where she has her seat, causing a ground stopping her planes and delays in her flights. The company alaska airlines hangs its flights assured at the time that it was not a cyber attack, but a certificate problem affecting several systems. This incident also occurs more than a year after a bouchon – lukecut holder sentenced a redundant rescue outcome – of a newly delivered Boeing 737 Max 9 was detached during a flight from Alaska Airlines between Portland (Oregon). Ontario (California) in January 2024.

The 171 passengers. the six crew members survived rapid decompression, but the incident led the American civil aviation regulator (FAA) to nail on the ground many Boeing 737-9 operated by American airlines. Last month. US investigators said Boeing’s inability to provide adequate training to manufacturing staff was a determining factor in the almost catastrophic flight explosion of the Alaska Airlines aircraft.

The latter is the fifth largest airline in the United States since its takeover of Hawaiian Airlines last year. The two companies have a fleet of more alaska airlines hangs its flights than 360 planes which serve around 140 destinations. mainly in the west of the United States and in the Hawaii archipelago.

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