Overview
- Alaska requested the halt just after 7:20 p.m. EDT, and the FAA advisory included regional subsidiary Horizon Air.
- Flight-tracking data showed more than 200 delays and dozens of cancellations at airports such as O’Hare and JFK, though an FAA update indicated Seattle–Tacoma departures were not affected.
- The airline said the outage was not a cybersecurity event, cited a failure at its primary data center, and noted Hawaiian Airlines operations continued normally.
- Alaska reported it was restoring systems and some flights were departing again, with warnings that delays would ripple beyond the roughly 70‑minute advisory window.
- This marked the carrier’s second major outage this year following a July incident linked to data-center hardware failure, and a flexible travel policy was posted for affected customers.