{"id":254357,"date":"2026-07-29T05:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:12:14","slug":"american-airlines-flights-disrupted-by-it-outage-how-its-impacting-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254357\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines flights disrupted by IT outage; how it\u2019s impacting Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">All American Airlines flights were grounded because of an IT outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fly.faa.gov\/adv\/adv_otherdis?adv_date=07282026&amp;advn=221\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fly.faa.gov\/adv\/adv_otherdis?adv_date=07282026&amp;advn=221\">The Federal Aviation Administration said<\/a> the outage began at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">As of 7:40 p.m., the Pittsburgh International Airport showed 16 delayed American Airlines flights and 11 canceled flights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 reached out to the Pittsburgh International Airport for more details and was directed to American Airlines for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">American Airlines said their systems are beginning to come back online and flights are scheduled to begin departing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This is a developing story. 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