Overview
- Alaska requested a temporary nationwide ground stop that the FAA advisory said also covered Horizon Air and was timed for about 1 hour 10 minutes ending at 0000 GMT.
- The airline reported the problem began around 3:30 p.m. with a failure at its primary data center, affecting key operational systems.
- Flight-tracking and airport data showed widespread disruption, including 82 delays and 17 cancellations at Seattle–Tacoma and additional delays at Los Angeles International.
- Passengers also encountered outages on the airline’s website and mobile app, with the company telling customers its IT team was working to resolve system errors.
- This marks Alaska’s second major systems failure this year after a July outage tied to data-center hardware that halted flights for about three hours.