Re: Alaskan Airlines IT outage grounds their fleet

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:42:39 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

.does anyone know anything

Redundancy should have been built in...they are using MS's Cloud, but
apparently still have in-house hardware doing tasks.
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But then a hardware failure in Alaska Airlines' computer network
forced the airline to pause its flights for around three hours Sunday
night.
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In a statement, Alaska Airlines pointed to an "unexpected failure" of
a crucial piece of hardware at its data centers that led to the
outage.

"When that happened, it impacted several of our key systems that
enable us to run various operations, necessitating the implementation
of a ground stop to keep aircraft in position," the statement read.
"The safety of our flights was never compromised."

A ground stop means affected aircraft cannot take off.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alaska-airlines-says-hardware-failure-led-to-it-outage-grounding-planes/