Alaska Airlines grounds flights after IT outage | Air transport

The US carrier Alaska Airlines grounded their flights after a CT deduction affecting Sundays, the company did not indicate that the fleet had grounded in a little more than a year without specifying the nature of the deduction.

“On Sunday (0300 GMT on Monday (0300 GMT) Pacific on Sunday, Alaska Airlines on Sunday (Monday (0300 GMT), Alaska Airlines, experienced an IT deduction affecting our operations.” He said. “We wanted a temporary, system -wide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air Flights.”

Seattle -based airline, said that during the evening without giving further details, it will have an impact on its operations.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comments. The FAA status page was shown by all destinations affected by the floor stop of Alaska’s main planes and suspended Horizon’s operations.

In April 2024, Alaska exploded in the air of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet operated by Alaska airlines.

Alaska Air Group holds a 238 Boeing 737 aircraft and 87 Embraer 175 aircraft according to its website.

In June, the Hawaiian airlines of Alaska Air Group said that some IT systems were broken by a hack. Alaska Air Group, this event is still determined the financial impact, he said.

The news of Alaska’s IT problems comes at a time when technology companies warned Google and Palo Alto Networks to the aviation industry of the Hackış D dispersed Spider ”hacking group.

Canada’s Westjet airlines were influenced by a non -cyber event in June, while Australia’s Qantas experienced a data violation in which a cyber hacker reached millions of customers in July.

It remains uncertain whether the deduction of Alaska is “active attacks de in Microsoft’s server software used by state institutions and businesses on Sunday.

Alaska did not respond immediately to a request looking for a comment on whether the deduction was related to the Microsoft announcement.