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Technology glitch grounds, delays flights at airlines

Published 11/11/2016, 07:01 PM
Updated 11/11/2016, 07:01 PM
Technology glitch grounds, delays flights at airlines
  • Flights at several airlines were grounded today as a computer outage at airline-tech firm Sabre created a glitch in operations.
  • Sabre says the systems were running again by early this afternoon, but didn't identify a cause for the problem.
  • American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) said flights were delayed but not canceled, while Southwest (NYSE:LUV) said the outage briefly prevent bookings, ticket changes and use of mobile boarding passes. Alaska (NYSE:ALK) said 15 flights were delayed by up to 15 minutes.
  • The glitch also hit Virgin America (NASDAQ:VA) and JetBlue (NASDAQ:JBLU), but United (NYSE:UAL) said flights were unaffected, and Delta (NYSE:DAL) doesn't use Sabre.
  • Airline stocks generally followed the market's closing lift to gains today, though: AAL +1.5%; LUV +0.5%; ALK +0.4%; VA flat; JBLU +0.3%; UAL +0.5%; DAL +0.9%.

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