Southwest Airways mentioned late Tuesday morning that flights had resumed after a short pause attributable to a technological downside.
The airline mentioned in an announcement {that a} connection to some operational knowledge was unexpectedly misplaced when a firewall equipped by a vendor went down early Tuesday. The airline mentioned that it had labored rapidly to attenuate disruptions and that it appreciated the persistence of its prospects and workers.
Southwest didn’t instantly cancel many flights, however greater than 1,700 had been delayed, representing greater than 40 % of its schedule for the day, in accordance with FlightAware, an aviation knowledge agency. Extra delays are possible because the disruption ripples all through the airline’s community. On the airline’s request, the Federal Aviation Administration had additionally briefly stopped Southwest flights from taking off.
The disruption comes only a few months after a meltdown across the Christmas vacation that price Southwest greater than $1 billion, annoyed thousands and thousands of vacationers and introduced on robust scrutiny from federal lawmakers and regulators.
The airline mentioned it had taken steps to stop one other widespread disruption, together with monitoring its community extra intently for early indicators of stress, updating crew scheduling software program and coaching staff to assist with operations when wanted.
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