Overview
- Alaska Airlines said an information‑technology outage forced a temporary halt to departures on Thursday evening.
- The FAA advisory shows the ground stop also covered regional subsidiary Horizon Air and was set to end at 0000 GMT.
- The airline has not disclosed the cause of the failure, and its IT team said it is working to resolve the error.
- Passengers were advised to check flight status, with local reports noting dozens of delays at Phoenix Sky Harbor.
- This is Alaska’s second major tech disruption this year after a July data‑center hardware failure grounded flights for about three hours and led to more than 200 cancellations.