United Airways flights on main routes have been grounded Wednesday due to a expertise problem, and extra flight delays have been anticipated into the night, the airline stated.
An alert on the Federal Aviation Administration web site stated all United flights destined for Chicago have been halted at their departing airports. The company stated Denver, Newark, Houston and San Francisco airports have been additionally impacted by halted flights.
“Security is our high precedence, and we’ll work with our clients to get them to their locations,” an emailed assertion from the Chicago based-airline stated with out disclosing the specifics of the issue.
An AP journalist had boarded a United aircraft on the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Worldwide Airport for a visit to Houston when flight attendants introduced a “systemwide” drawback had grounded flights. They then despatched passengers again to the terminal.
One other traveler, Johan Kotze, was on the New Orleans airport to start a journey to the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius for trip. Getting caught up in flight delays for him possible meant he would miss connecting flights alongside the way in which and must rebook not solely the flights however a automobile and lodging as nicely.
“It’s not very good,” he stated of the expertise.
United Airways apologized on social media to upset clients who have been dealing with delays and hours sitting in planes on runways.
“Hey there, we apologize for the journey disruption as we speak,” the airline informed a buyer on the social platform X. “Our groups are working to resolve the outage as shortly as doable. Thanks to your endurance.”
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