{"id":790742,"date":"2026-07-29T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:44:10","slug":"american-airlines-nationwide-ground-stop-lifted-after-it-outage-disrupts-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790742\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines nationwide ground stop lifted after IT outage disrupts flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/american-airlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Airlines<\/a> has lifted a national groundstop after a system outage, the airline confirmed Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening,&#8221; American Airlines said on X. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center, all airports and facilities were being impacted by the IT outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Texan Lynn Breitinger says she found out about the temporary ground stop in an announcement towards the end of her flight. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were told maybe it was a computer problem,&#8221; \u00a0said Breitinger. &#8220;Either with DFW, the airport, or maybe it was an American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A previous post from the airline on X apologized for the outage and said its IT team is working &#8220;as quickly as possible to get the system restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines has lifted a national groundstop after a system outage, the airline confirmed Tuesday night. &#8220;A technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13816,28,1062],"class_list":["post-790742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-american-airlines","tag-business","tag-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}