 Southwest Airlines jets at Chicago's Midway Airport. The airline has roughly 3,200 flights per day. (Charles Rex Arbogast, AP / February 9, 2012) |
June 21, 2013, 10:28 p.m.
Southwest Airlines on Friday night grounded flights across the western United States after experiencing a problem with the internal computer system used to dispatch planes, a company official said.
The airline, which has roughly 3,200 flights per day, said the system went down about 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
Planes already in the air were not affected.
Southwest spokeswoman Michelle Agnew said airports on the West Coast, in the Mountain states and even some in the Midwest have been affected. But she could not specify how many flights have been grounded.
"We're not able to give a number because we're not able to see how many flights we've got on the ground right now," Agnew said.
In Los Angeles, airport officials reported that 13 Southwest flights had been scheduled to depart from Los Angeles International Airport after 8 p.m. As of 9:40 p.m., five of the 13 were experiencing delays of 30 to 80 minutes.
At L.A./Ontario International Airport, three flights were affected, according to officials with Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that runs LAX and Ontario airports.
Southwest officials have not decided whether or not to cancel the flights entirely, Agnew said. The company's Facebook page quickly began filling up with complaints from customers sitting in planes parked at airport terminals.
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