If you were traveling AA today, you'd better start making other plans.
Posted on 12/24/2024 4:44:46 AM PST by CFW
A "technical issue" disrupted American Airlines flights nationwide early on Tuesday, the airline said, at the start of a busy Christmas Eve for travelers around the country.
The Federal Aviation Administration said American requested a ground stop for all its flights.
"We're currently experiencing a technical issue with all American Airlines flights," the airline wrote in a post to X.
The post added, "Your safety is our utmost priority, once this is rectified, we'll have you safely on your way to your destination." Replying to questions from other social media users, the airline said it was not able to estimate how long the fix would take.
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If you were traveling AA today, you'd better start making other plans.
Nationwide that’s only affecting AA?
“Technical Issue?”
They got hacked. Is it Russians or Aliens?
My flight yesterday on AA went smoothly no issues. TYG.
Terrorism threat?
were that the case they would ground everyone
Yes, unless it was a specific tip that it was going to be an American Airlines flight.
Just saw an AA plane take off from Heathrow.
It is hard for me to think of a technical issue that would ground all flights of only a single airline.
Maybe the reservation system crashed.
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I have no inside information at all. I have seen it in the past with a central load planning/weight and balance computer glitch and a dispatch computer system power outage. Even a broken link to a weather service can do it for an individual carrier.
It only takes a short period (less than an hour) to screw things up for the rest of the day.
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“””Christmas Eve traveling chaos.
If you were traveling AA today, you’d better start making other plans.”””
In my younger days I regularly flew to my Christmas destination on Christmas Eve morning because the planes were half full.
Unless things have dramatically changed, this AA shutdown should not be a big issue.
Most folks probably flew on Fri, Sat, or Sun to their Christmas destination.
Most curry IT are useless drones, devoid of any quality ethic, integrity, or competence. Indians were useful when the British had them under their bootheel. Same goes for most of Africa. About 500 years behind the West in terms of societal evolution. Hell, they worship blue-faced Monkey gods and think that that's a real thing.
We were flying on American Airlines at the end of October. They supposedly did a software update and then couldn’t fly the plane, a 737. Luckily, they fixed it and we continued on our flight.
I don’t see any tech issues on their DEI webpage.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/about-us/diversity/inclusion-and-diversity.jsp
Was there anything else that their customers need to have technically working? Yeah it would be nice if their airplanes worked and people could get where they want to go for the holidays. But that is the type of priority you would expect from merit-based enterprises.
It seems it is something computerized.
Serious question, since I don’t live near many Indians:
do you see a difference between Indian Christians and Indian Hindus? (or Indian Muslims for that matter)?
The lesson I take from this is: De-centralization.
All of these devices could be done at the individual airport and in the not too distant past were.
Certainly their are economies to be had with centralizing those things but shutting down the entire airline for one of the busiest travel days of the year probably ate up all of those savings Not to mention the good will of the customer.
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