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Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed on Tuesday because of a technology issue.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tweeted shortly after 10:30 a.m. that Southwest requested a pause on all of its departures, while deferring to the airline for any additional information.
The agency then tweeted at 11:10 a.m. that the pause had been lifted and service had resumed. It said the airline experienced an issue with one of its “internal systems.”
More than 1,700 of the airline’s flights were delayed as of around 11:20 a.m., according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Southwest responded to several Twitter users earlier in the morning about the issue, saying it hoped to fix the problem shortly.
