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Hundreds of southwestern flights were delayed after the technical issues that led the airline to temporarily stop its operations on Tuesday morning.
South West said that the flight delays was the result of “data communication issues resulting from the failure of the protection wall,” a problem that led to a brief stopping.
Federal Aviation Administration I started stopping on the ground when the airline requestQuoting “equipment issues”. Soon the stop of the land was raised, and in a A cluster at 11:35 am southwest time It has resumed operations.
“Early this morning, a protective wall from a seller fell and communicated with some operational data unexpectedly,” spokesman Dan Landson said in a statement.
Southwest of 1820 flights or 43 % of its current schedule was delayed from noon on Tuesday, according to Flightaware. The airline canceled only nine flights on Tuesday, according to Flightaware. South West says her workers “worked quickly to reduce disturbances.”
South West told technology issues on Tuesday morning and said that she “hopes to resume our work as soon as possible.”
In a statement to CNN, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN that the southwest of the “FAA request stopped leaving the airline.”
The problems come months after the airline forced to cancel more than 16,700 flights between 20 and 29 December, or nearly half of its schedule during that period. The airline is partially attributed to the changes in the schedule of its employees. Southwest last month revealed a “action plan” to prevent another operating collapse.
The southwest described the latest problem of “intermittent technology issues” in the social media post. Many of them took social media to complain about late flights.
“We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause, but we hope that everyone will make everyone as soon as possible,” the airline wrote in another post on social media.
The huge winter storm started service problems during the holiday season, but Southwest had more difficult time to recover because of the old crew scheduled system that was immersed quickly, leaving the airline unable to get the employees he needs to sites to operate flights. Nearly half of his schedule was canceled during December 20 to December 29. For some days, up to 75 % of its scheduled trips was established.
Part of what created worse problems in the southwest than other airlines is that crew members should contact the airline, rather than notify them electronically, to allow them to be available.