American Airlines passengers had a rough start to their Christmas Eve travel plans when the airline grounded all flights on Tuesday morning due to a nationwide “technical issue.”
American requested a ground stop for all of its flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and wrote on social media early Tuesday morning, “We’re currently experiencing a technical issue with all American Airlines flights.” An hour after the disruption, American Airlines began boarding flights again and the FAA lifted the ground stop, ABC News reported.
American said in in a statement later Tuesday morning that a “vendor technology issue” caused the disruption which has “been resolved and flights have resumed,” CNN reported.
Just after 7:00 a.m. ET, American Airlines had nearly 2,000 outages reported, according to DownDetector. Social media users said they were stuck on the…
