United Airlines flights resume after it resolves technical glitch

WASHINGTON >> United Airlines said a technology issue that led to a brief grounding of its flights at U.S. airports today has been resolved.

“While we expect residual delays, our team is working to restore our normal operations,” the airline said.

The outage, which lasted over an hour, prompted ground stops at several major United hub airports, including Newark, Denver, Houston, and Chicago, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s website.

ABC News reported that airline officials confirmed in a statement that the problem was related to its weight and balance computer system and that it was not a cyberattack.

As of 9:25 p.m. ET (3:25 p.m. in Hawaii), flight tracking data from FlightAware showed that 870, or 28%, of United flights had been delayed today.

United’s outage came a few weeks after Alaska Airlines grounded all of its flights for about three hours due to an IT outage for the second time in just over a year. In April 2024, Alaska grounded its entire fleet due to an issue with the system that calculates the weight and balance of its planes.\

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