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American Airlines Halted Nationwide By IT Outage — Flights Missed Their Chance To Take Off Between Northeast Storms

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American Airlines Halted Nationwide By IT Outage — Flights Missed Their Chance To Take Off Between Northeast Storms
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American Airlines briefly halted departures nationwide after a systemwide IT outage took down key operational systems, triggering an FAA ground stop for American and its subsidiaries. The systems came back, but for some flights the damage was done: the outage caused them to miss narrow departure windows between severe weather events, turning a short technology failure into cascading delays.

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