A system Housing United Airlines flight information for a disruption More than 1,000 delay Solution has been resolved, but the delay continued in Thursday.
According to United, the affected system, inseparable, is called information about the flight of houses, which is fed to other systems, which calculate weight and balance and track the time of flight. It is not clear what is the cause of the problem, which was solved late on Wednesday. While the residual delay was expected, United said that its team was working to restore normal operations.
About 35% of all airline flights were delayed and another 7% was canceled on Wednesday, according to the flightware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. By Thursday morning, 4% of united flights for the day were delayed and 4% were canceled.
An alert on Federal Aviation Administration website said on Wednesday United flights Luckily for Chicago stayed at his departure airports. Flights to the United Hub at Denver, Newark, Houston and San Francisco airports were also affected.
The airline’s travel alert page mentioned that a technology disruption from Thursday to Sunday might affect many American airports or Denver, Newark, Washington, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, Chicago, San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam and something in Europe, such as London, Frankfurt and Munich.
An email statement by the airline in Chicago said, “Safety is our top priority, and we will work with our customers.
The statement stated that the system outage, as the company described it, lasted for several hours. It was not related to recent concerns Airline industry cyber security. United said that it was considering it as a controlgic delay, which means that it pays the customer expenses such as hotels such as implemented.
The FAA said in a statement on Thursday that it was known about the united operational disruption, given that the airline could continue to be delayed due to healing.
“We have offered full support to address our flight backlog and help in close contact with United,” the FAA said.
United Airlines apologized on social media and said that in some cases it would pay for hotels and other expenses incurred by passengers due to delay.
“Hey, we apologize for travel disruption today,” the airline told a customer on the social platform X. “Our teams are working to solve the outage as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.”
Jack Brook and Lisa Bamman, Associated Press