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Gizmodo
21-07-2025
- Business
- Gizmodo
Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight
A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn't end there. Alaska warned passengers to brace for likely delays throughout the day. 'We are currently experiencing an IT outage that's impacting our operations,' Alaska Airlines posted on X shortly after midnight on Monday. 'We requested a temporary, system-wide ground stop until the issue is resolved.' The FAA's website listed the stop as applying to all Alaska Airlines aircraft. The airline did not share details about the cause of the issue and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo. However, the company posted on X that passengers should check flight statuses before heading to the airport, as the outage could continue to disrupt travel. The company warned that as it repositioned its aircraft and crew, there would likely be 'residual impacts' to its flights. 'Alaska Airlines has resolved its earlier IT outage and has resumed operations. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and encourage guests to check your flight status before heading to the airport,' the company posted on X. Travelers took to social media to vent about long delays on the tarmac and in terminals, particularly at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. One said they endured five gate changes. CNN reported that some passengers were stuck on planes for hours. Alaska Airlines operates 238 Boeing aircraft, 87 Embraer planes, and 45 additional planes through Horizon Air. The Seattle-based company is the fifth-largest airline in the U.S., serving more than 44 million passengers annually. The incident comes almost exactly one year after a software update from the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage. The crash has become known as the largest IT outage in history. The July 2024 outage brought down an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems running CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor software, disrupting everything from hospitals and airports to broadcast networks. There's no word yet from Alaska on whether the outage ties into a broader software problem, but the timing, almost exactly a year after the CrowdStrike crash, isn't going unnoticed on social media, with users wondering if the events are related.
Reuters
09-05-2025
- Reuters
San Francisco's commuter trains stopped for four hours by computer outage
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - A computer outage knocked out train service in the San Francisco Bay area for about four hours on Friday morning, causing headaches for some commuters in the high-tech capital. The Bay Area Rapid Transit agency suspended train service systemwide around 5 a.m. PDT and resumed a little after 9 a.m. PDT. The network connects San Francisco, Oakland, both cities' airports, Berkeley and the East Bay area. BART attributed the shutdown to an unspecified computer problem. Officials advised commuters to take buses, trams and ferries instead. A prolonged pandemic-related slump in the number of people working in downtown San Francisco probably limited potential snarls. BART train ridership has been less than half of what it was in 2019. Downtown San Francisco's commercial buildings have among the lowest occupancy rates in the nation for business property, and many people work from home on Fridays. Google Maps showed car traffic into the city was about normal with no major delays. The city transport service in San Francisco, called Muni, and its classic cable cars, mostly used by tourists, were running as usual. The Bay Area is one of the largest metropolitan regions on the U.S. West Coast of the United States with a population of about 7 million.
CBS News
09-05-2025
- CBS News
Entire BART system shut down due to computer outage
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) announced Friday morning that all service is suspended, as the agency deals with a computer outage. Around 4:30 a.m. the agency first announced that the system was being suspended due to a train control system problem. As of 6:40 a.m., trains remain shut down. Due to a computer networking problem BART service is suspended system wide until further notice. Seek alternate means of transportation. Find more info at — BART Alert (@SFBARTalert) May 9, 2025 It is unclear when service would resume. Additional details about the outage were not immediately available. BART urged commuters to use alternate means of transportation. This is a breaking news update. More details to come.
