Hardware failure blamed for nationwide grounding, nearly 200 flight disruptions
- A critical piece of multi-redundant hardware at a third-party data center failed, triggering the grounding of all flights Sunday evening The Daily Beast+15AP News+15Alaska Airlines News+15.
- Alaska Airlines lifted the ground stop by 11 p.m. PT, but over 150 flights were canceled and delays spilled into Monday as operations recovered Fox Business+15AP News+15The Economic Times+15.
- The airline maintained that safety was never compromised, and noted this outage was not related to any cybersecurity incident Barron’s+2https://www.alaskasnewssource.com+2Alaska Airlines News+2.
- As of Monday morning, nearly 200 cancellations had been logged, affecting approximately 13,500 travelers