American Airlines Flights Resume After Being Grounded by System Outage

Skip to content Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Joe Raedle/Getty Images American Airlines says it has resumed flights on Tuesday evening after a brief grounding of its fleet of jets blamed on a “technology issue.” The FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center issued a ground stop advisory on Tuesday, preventing American Airlines’ planes from departing on flights. Flights already in the air were unaffected by the disruption. American Airlines announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the outage had been resolved. “A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening,” the airline said in its post and in a statement to CNET. “Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again. We put a temporary ground stop in place while our teams worked to resolve the issue. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.” The post didn’t specify the cause of the issue. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining CNET in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers and had a brief stint at MacWeek. See full bio