American Air Flight Delays Mount Amid Maintenance System Problem

(Bloomberg) – American Airlines Group Inc. Flight delays, while trying to repair a technical problem affecting carrier maintenance procedures rose to more than 830 on Wednesday.

The American did not specify the problem that the workers said it was “actively troubleshooting, but individuals published complaints about late flights in cities such as Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Tampa, Florida and Austin and Texas. According to Flightware.com, the problem delayed about 28% of the American main line flights, but did not affect them by regional airline partners.

Delays hours after another technology problem, United Airlines Holdings Holdings Holdings asked the federal authorities to briefly ground all the main lines, and when an air traffic control facility was incorrectly cut, the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is shorter than a week after a major degradation of American flights.

United said that disruptions occurred after routine, and then the airline’s ability to connect to the technology network failed briefly. Considering the stands of space outside the busy travel hours, only 80 flights were delayed and five canceled.

Last month, a separate software interruption in United temporarily grounded aircraft throughout the US and delayed more than 1000 flights. This failure included the unimatic system of the airline, which contains information for each flight distributed to other operating systems, including those who calculate the weight and balance for aircraft and follow the flight times. United said the interruption and what happened before today.

After cutting fiber optic cables to a facility that controls air traffic in an area such as both Dallas-Fort Worth International and Dallas Love Field, approximately 700 American flights were canceled and hundreds of 19 and 20 September were delayed. The American estimates that more than 100,000 passengers were affected at that time.

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