"A vendor technology issue briefly affected flights this morning," American said in a statement sent to ABC News. "That issue has been resolved and flights have resumed."
I use to automatically chalk this up to human error, but now we have all that nifty automation. I know there's a series of conference call happening today, because happiness is knowing who to blame. Sympathies for those dealing with fallout.

#sysadmin #american_airlines_group_inc #outage

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