United Airways resolves tech challenge that grounded flights, however journey disruptions proceed

About 35% of all of the airline’s flights on Wednesday have been delayed and seven% — 218 flights — have been canceled, in response to FlightAware, a web site that tracks flight disruptions.

By Thursday afternoon native Chicago time, 11% of United flights for the day have been delayed and 5% have been canceled. Around the identical time, FlightAware reported 42 cancellations at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. All however one have been United flights.

United’s journey alert web page famous flights to or from greater than a dozen U.S. airports could possibly be affected nonetheless on Thursday. That contains airports in Denver, Newark, Washington, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam, in addition to some in Europe, reminiscent of London, Frankfurt and Munich. It was an enchancment from earlier within the day, when the alert web page stated flights by way of Sunday is likely to be impacted.

The system outage, as the corporate described it, lasted a number of hours Wednesday evening, United stated. It wasn’t associated to current issues about airline business cybersecurity. United additionally apologized on social media to its prospects and stated it could pay for bills reminiscent of accommodations in some circumstances.

An alert on the Federal Aviation Administration web site Wednesday stated all United flights destined for Chicago have been halted at their departing airports. Flights to United hubs at Denver, Newark, Houston and San Francisco airports additionally have been affected.

The FAA stated in an announcement Thursday that it was in shut contact with United and providing its assist to assist tackle their flight backlog.