All American Airlines flights grounded nationwide till at least 4 p.m. CDT

All American Airlines flights grounded nationwide till at least 4 p.m. CDT

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American Airlines is having problems with its computer systems Tuesday, and it appears to be affecting its schedule.

“American’s reservation and booking tool, Sabre, is offline,” American spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said at midday. “We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as we can. We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience.”

She confirmed that the problem is causing some delays of American flights.

We note that FlightStats.com at noon showed that 91 percent of American’s flights to that point had departed on time, with 89 percent arriving on time. If the

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This is most very likely unrelated to the events at the Boston Marathon yesterday.

But, an AA flight out of Boston was involved in 9/11, so I find it kind of weird and random.

A search to make sure this current story had not yet been posted revealed this thread from 2008. AA also had similar problems then...

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Curious coincidence. But probably nothing...

There's already a thread about this, the search feature is your friend.
Please close this one up Mods, thanks.

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LOL! The search! Derp! Did use it. Probably cross posted. I'll alert.

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I haven't seen another thread about this...

Can you provide the link ? I'm curious to see what the other one is saying also.

Thanks !

This thread has been reopened...and moved to Other Current Events.
In the even a link to an original is found and posted here, this thread will be closed.

Otherwise, feel free to discuss the topic.

Thanks.

AA blames reservation system vendor, Sabre. Sabre states all is fine. Maybe AA's system / interface or something even worse.

Will we ever know...