Alaska Airlines was the one with the door blowout incident, by the way.
Alaska Airlines Pauses All Departures Nationwide After Tech Issues
Alaska Airlines Pauses All Departures Nationwide After Tech Issues
The Federal Aviation Administration issued an advisory Wednesday morning for Alaska Airlines to pause departures across all airports Wednesday, a halt the major airline said was related to a problem with its system for calculating weight.
The FAA did not give a reason for the ground stop
The advisory, issued around 7:50 a.m. PT, ordered “all Alaska mainline and subcarrier flights ground stopped,” though flights on Skywest—an Alaska Airlines partner—were allowed to continue.
The ground stop expired around 8:30 a.m. PT and Alaska has begun releasing flights for departure, but “residual delays are expected throughout the day,” Alaska Airlines told Forbes in a statement.
Alaska Airlines said it requested the ground stop for all Alaska and Horizon flights after it “experienced an issue while performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance.”