American Airlines operations returning to normal after widespread computer outage

American Airlines suffered a widespread outage with its flight information computer system government with two affected airports notified CNN In a comment to CNN American Airlines explained a innovation issue was affecting connectivity for specific of its systems We are working with our partners to fully resolve the issue the airline explained Though we are experiencing delays as a impact we have not canceled any flights at this time A source from one affected airport narrated CNN the airline had sent messages indicating problems for at least two hours with the system that handles flight bookings check-in ticketing and baggage tagging along with other functions The source declared American sent communications just before p m ET stating the systems were coming back online and to expect slight delays as they work towards normal operations Airport functionaries at Miami International Airport declared they were notified about the obstacle just after p m Friday We have been just notified about that We re waiting to hear if any sites have been impacted yet revealed Greg Chin communications director at Miami International Airport The full impacts on flights and passengers were not yet clear Friday afternoon One commuter in Arizona narrated CNN he was stuck on an airplane before takeoff The flight was supposed to takeoff at a m MT the app now says a m MT but that s just a place holder Pilot came on and noted that AA s electronic maintenance system is down and they can t input whatever work was done on the plane and then accept it so therefore we re stuck until that system comes back up Jason Hass revealed A voyager in Charlotte who was scheduled to leave at p m described CNN they were about to take off just before p m The client John Noona described CNN airline functionaries disclosed the main system had gone down He added he had been stuck on the ground for nearly two hours The Federal Aviation Administration as well as executives at airports in Chicago and Dallas referred questions to the airline More than of American Airlines flights were delayed Friday and were canceled according to FlightAware s flight details tracker Delayed flights for American s wholly-owned subsidiary PSA Airlines also topped and of its flights were canceled We apologize to our customers for their experience the airline reported in a declaration