After a technical problem, American Airlines is able to resume flights.

After a technical problem, American Airlines is able to resume flights.

After halting operations for around an hour on Tuesday due to a technical problem that affected. The systems required to release its aircraft. American Airlines has now resumed flights.

Shortly before 13:00 GMT, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the cancellation of the statewide suspension.

Passengers were traveling on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year. When the disruption occurred.

The airline claimed in a statement that a “vendor technical issue”.

Was to blame for the problem and that “all hands on deck”. Was being employed to minimize any additional disturbance.

The airline said. This morning to our passengers.”

“Our crew is working hard to get customers where they need to go as quickly as possible. So everyone is on deck.”

As the airline recovers from the widespread problem, departure boards at key. To two hours for some flights. However, Flightradar24, a real-time tracking website. Shows planes taking off again at several major US travel hubs and the majority of flights are departing on time.

For over an hour, aircraft were affected by the outage. And passengers posted on social media about being held at gates or on the tarmac.

Additionally, several passengers were instructed to get off their aircraft.

A CBS reporter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shared a video of a gate agent announcing the start of boarding for a trip to Philadelphia on X.

The agent said, “The system is slowly coming back,” from a gate.

Due to communication problems brought on by a worldwide IT catastrophe, American Airlines and other major airlines stopped flights throughout the United States in July.

A flawed software update from cybersecurity company. Which also had an impact on banks and emergency services.