Fort Worth-based American Airlines planes departing again after temporary global ground stop

FlightAware, a flight-tracking site, reported that American Airlines delayed 1,100 flights, or 30% of its schedule on Tuesday. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: American Airlines and its regional carriers resumed flights on Tuesday evening after a brief nationwide halt to departures over an IT issue, the airline said.The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for American Airlines flights due to an IT outage that took effect around 6.30pm ET (2230 GMT) and was cancelled at 7.18pm.The issue delayed hundreds of flights because planes could not depart until it was resolved, and it came as many US East Coast airports were experiencing significant delays and ground stops due to thunderstorms."Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again," American said in a statement. "We put a temporary ground stop in place while our teams worked to resolve the issue.

We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience."FlightAware, a flight-tracking site, said American had delayed 1,100 flights, or 30% of flights on Tuesday and canceled 221, or 6% of flights. Flightradar24, another aviation website, said as of 7pm ET there were 130 fewer flights in the air than at the same time last week. American Airlines was under a nationwide ground stop due to an IT outage on Tuesday evening, according to the FAA.

American Airlines briefly halted flight departures in the U.S. The carrier says flights are expected to resume now that the outage has been addressed.In a social media message, American Airlines said it put a temporary ground stop on its flights when it detected the problem.Specific details about the technical issue were not available. American said it "briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems."The ground stop went into effect around 6:30 p.m.

Eastern Time and began to resolve shortly afterward.Elsewhere in the U.S. on Tuesday, heavy thunderstorm activity was causing unrelated ground delays and ground stops at airports, including in Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and New York.This is a developing story and will be updated. American Airlines has requested a ground stop nationwide Tuesday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to Nexstar.

American Airlines briefly halted flights nationwide Tuesday evening after an IT outage prompted a ground stop for planes that had not yet taken off. A post from the airline on X apologized for the outage and said its IT team is working "as quickly as possible to get the system restored." A systemwide IT outage triggered a nationwide American Airlines ground stop Tuesday night, officials said.

(KRON) -- A nationwide ground stop was issued Tuesday for all American Airlines flights due to an Internet outage. According to the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system command center, the ground stop impacts all U.S. destination airports and facilities.