An Alaska Airways jet taxis at San Francisco Worldwide Airport on June 4, 2025 in San Francisco, California.
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U.S. provider Alaska Airways resumed operations late on Sunday after briefly grounding all of its flights for about three hours as a result of an IT outage, marking the second time it has halted its fleet in simply over a yr.
The corporate requested a system-wide floor cease for Alaska and Horizon Air flights at round 8 p.m. Pacific on Sunday after it mentioned that an outage impacted its techniques, and lifted the bottom cease by 11 p.m. Pacific, the provider mentioned.
“As we reposition our plane and crews, there’ll more than likely be residual impacts to our flights. It’ll take a while to get our total operations again to regular,” the Seattle-based firm mentioned.
Alaska didn’t instantly specify the character of the IT outage.
In April 2024, Alaska grounded its whole fleet as a result of a difficulty with the system that calculates the load and stability of its planes.
Alaska Air Group maintains an operational fleet of 238 Boeing 737 plane, and 87 Embraer 175 plane, in accordance with its web site.
In June, Alaska Air Group-owned Hawaiian Airways mentioned a few of its IT techniques had been disrupted by a hack. Alaska Air Group mentioned it was nonetheless figuring out the monetary impression of that occasion.
The information of Alaska’s IT points comes at a time when tech firms Google and Palo Alto Networks have warned of the “Scattered Spider” hacking group’s curiosity within the aviation sector.
Canada’s WestJet Airways was struck by an unspecified cyber incident in June, whereas Australia’s Qantas skilled an information breach in July the place a cyber hacker accessed the non-public info of tens of millions of shoppers. However these incidents didn’t have an effect on flying operations.
Individually, Microsoft mentioned on Sunday that there have been “lively assaults” on its server software program utilized by authorities companies and companies.
Alaska didn’t instantly reply to a request in search of touch upon whether or not the outage was associated to the Microsoft announcement.