{"id":357929,"date":"2026-07-30T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:20:56","slug":"tech-outage-halts-american-airlines-flights-fallout-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357929\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech outage halts American Airlines flights, fallout in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2138.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A 45-minute technology outage forced American Airlines to request a ground stop, leaving dozens of flights delayed or canceled at MIA and some impact at FLL.\" alt=\"A 45-minute technology outage forced American Airlines to request a ground stop, leaving dozens of flights delayed or canceled at MIA and some impact at FLL.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A 45-minute technology outage forced American Airlines to request a ground stop, leaving dozens of flights delayed or canceled at MIA and some impact at FLL.<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>Travelers at Miami International Airport on Wednesday are facing cancellations and delays as fallout from an American Airlines shutdown disrupts flight schedules.<\/p>\n<p>A  problem with the carrier\u2019s information technology system led to flights being halted nationwide for about 45 minutes on Tuesday evening. An American Airlines spokesperson said the  cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening,\u201d American Airlines said in a statement.  \u201cConnectivity has been fully restored. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Mullooly, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told the Miami Herald on Wednesday that \u201cAmerican Airlines requested the ground stop\u201d on Tuesday. But he noted, \u201cOperations are currently normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While flights resumed Tuesday night, the domino effect of delays continued into the morning.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, 56 American Airlines flights were delayed into or out of Miami International Airport, according to FlightAware, which noted 86 total delays at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>MIA also had 13 cancellations on Wednesday morning,  11 of them  American Airlines\u2019 flights.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier has less of a presence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where there were fewer impacts from the ground stop.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 13 flights canceled at FLL, two were American Airlines routes as of 11:50 a.m., according to the FlightAware tracker. FlightAware also reported 54 delays at the airport, including three AA flights.<\/p>\n<p>Checking your flights at MIA<\/p>\n<p>MIA has several ways to check flights, including a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/webvids.miami-airport.com\/webfids\/\">list of airlines<\/a>, their door number, departure concourse, check-in counter location and baggage claim area. The airport also has a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miami-airport.com\/miaairportofficial.asp\">mobile app.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/Airport\/passengers\/Flights\/Pages\/FlightTracker.aspx\">FLL\u2019s flight tracker<\/a> works by flight or route. You\u2019ll need to know the date, along with the airline carrier and flight number or the departure and arrival airport. The tool also gives people the option to see a list of all expected arrivals and departures and details on the flight\u2019s terminal and baggage claim, too.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/269073447\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vinod Sreeharsha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Vinod Sreeharsha covers tourism trends in South Florida for the Miami Herald.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-minute technology outage forced American Airlines to request a ground stop, leaving dozens of flights delayed or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-357929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}