Many other flights have been delayed since Thursday. Alaska Airlines has not revealed what caused the problems, but says it’s not due to any cybersecurity incident.
If you’re flying on Alaska Airlines today, brace for disruptions. An IT outage that began on Thursday afternoon has caused the airliner to cancel more than 360 flights.
The outage “led to a systemwide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air flights,” the airline said on Friday. For now, the company has only said that the „IT outage is not a cybersecurity event, and it’s not related to any other events.” But it’s the second incident since July, when the airline was forced to ground over 200 flights because of a separate IT outage.
In this case, the problem began at around 3:30 p.
