FAA briefly grounds all American Airlines flights over IT outage

Published July 28, 2026 9:03pm ET



The Federal Aviation Administration briefly grounded all flights from American Airlines after the company experienced a systemwide IT failure, affecting airports across the country.

The outage lasted under an hour and didn’t affect flights that had already departed.

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