Alaska Airlines had an IT outage that caused a three-hour ground stop for all its planes on Sunday evening. The outage began at 8 pm, leading to the cancellation of 150 flights and delays to 161 flights. The issue was due to unexpected failure of a critical third-party hardware component, affecting key operational systems. Although the ground stop ended by 11 pm, the airline warned of residual impacts as operations returned to normal. Safety remained uncompromised and was distinct from previous cyberattack-related issues.
Alaska Airlines experienced an IT outage, resulting in a three-hour ground stop for all its planes, which led to the cancellation of 150 flights.
A critical piece of multi-redundant hardware experienced an unexpected failure, impacting several of our key systems and necessitating the implementation of a ground stop.
The company clarified that the safety of our flights was never compromised and that this IT issue was not related to a previous cyberattack impacting airlines.
Residual impacts will likely continue as the airline works to reposition aircraft and crews to return overall operations to normal.
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