{"id":1386,"date":"2019-04-02T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2019-04-02T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T06:32:28","slug":"computer-glitch-blamed-for-flight-delays-that-hit-u-s-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/computer-glitch-blamed-for-flight-delays-that-hit-u-s-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Glitch Blamed For Flight Delays That Hit U.S. Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Delta, Southwest, United Planes Temporarily Grounded Due to Computer Outage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Plane_wing-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-811\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A computer glitch affected several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\">major US airlines<\/a> including Southwest, Delta, <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">and<\/g> United and caused hundreds of flight delays across the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest, Delta, JetBlue,\nUnited, Alaska Air Group and American were forced to ground or delay flights\nearly Monday because of a problem with the program called AeroData. The program\nis used to calculate the weight and balance of flights which are necessary to\ngrant clearance for takeoff.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By midday, almost 3,500\nflights had been delayed nationwide. They include one third of flights at\nairports in New York City, Chicago and Boston, Detroit and Washington, DC,\nDallas, Charlotte, Atlanta and Miami. However, it is unclear how many of the\ndelays were caused by the AeroData issue, according to the Federal Aviation\nAdministration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delay hit Southwest\nairlines shortly after 7 a.m., forcing the ground stop that lasted only 45\nminutes. The Federal Aviation Administration announced at 8:30 a.m. that the\n&#8220;issue has been resolved.&#8221; But by then, the delays were already\nmounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 8:15 a.m.,&nbsp;carriers\nannounced through their social media accounts that the&nbsp;glitch,\nwhich&nbsp;had affected the flights,&nbsp;had been resolved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, several carriers\nreported problems after Sabre, a company airlines use for printing tickets and\nmaking reservations, had technical problems. Sabre said it was not responsible\nfor software issues on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/04\/01\/708738804\/u-s-flight-delays-hit-several-airlines-computer-problems-blamed\">National Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta, Southwest, United Planes Temporarily Grounded Due to Computer Outage. &nbsp;A computer glitch affected several major US airlines including Southwest, Delta, and United and caused hundreds of flight delays across the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32],"tags":[118,119,121,92,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}