{"id":8309,"date":"2023-09-06T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:34:39","slug":"united-airlines-says-the-outage-that-held-up-departing-flights-was-not-a-cybersecurity-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines says the outage that held up departing flights was not a cybersecurity issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation news international- United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation\u2019s biggest carriers on a busy travel day.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA software update caused a widespread slowdown in United\u2019s technology systems,\u201d United said in a statement. The airline said it was not a cybersecurity issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the nation\u2019s airspace, said United asked it to stop the airline\u2019s departures nationwide. The FAA said the issue was limited to United and its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The ground stop \u2014 it did not affect planes already in the air, United said \u2014 lasted a little more than an hour.<a id=\"html-embed-module-e30000\" class=\"AnchorLink\" name=\"html-embed-module-e30000\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By late afternoon Tuesday on the East Coast, United had canceled only seven flights, well below its average of about 16 per day over the busy Labor Day weekend, according to figures from tracking service FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>However, more than 350 United flights were delayed \u2014 13% of the carrier\u2019s schedule, far more than rivals American, Delta and Southwest \u2014 on a day that many holiday vacationers were expected to fly home.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines had a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/southwest-flights-grounded-faa-fa702529c286c44b45102d8128088deb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar outage<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in April that grounded all departing flights for about an hour and caused more than 2,000 flights to be late.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA caused all U.S. departures to be halted briefly in January when a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/federal-aviation-administration-general-news-5805d15f520de8eadf52abb7b170487f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">system used to alert pilots<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to safety hazards failed. The agency\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/faa-notam-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed a contractor<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that it said accidentally deleted files while synchronizing the alert system and its backup.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has criticized airlines for flight problems and other issues over the past year, posted Tuesday that the FAA was \u201creceiving more information about the cause and scope of the issue, and DOT will make sure (United) meets its obligations to affected passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is part of Buttigieg\u2019s Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Chicago-based United Airlines Holdings Inc. fell on news of the ground stop and closed down 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-airlines-flights-stopped-faa-ce9623ae0fd1e657830dc6acb6cccbc4\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-airlines-flights-stopped-faa-ce9623ae0fd1e657830dc6acb6cccbc4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation news international- United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation\u2019s biggest carriers on a busy travel day. Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. \u201cA software update caused a widespread &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[102,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-flights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>United Airlines says the outage that held up departing flights was not a cybersecurity issue - aviation news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=8309\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"United Airlines says the outage that held up departing flights was not a cybersecurity issue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aviation news international- United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation\u2019s biggest carriers on a busy travel day. 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