In the United States, Alaska Airlines announces to suspend all its flights because of a computer failure

The American airline Alaska Airlines announced the suspension of all its flights, as well as those of its subsidiary Horizon Air, due to a computer failure on Sunday July 20. The airline told AFP that it had “undergoing a computer failure affecting its operations” and that she had “Asked for a temporary interruption, across the whole system, of all the flights from Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air until the problem is resolved”. She did not specify the exact nature of this failure.

Based in Seattle, Alaska Airlines is the fifth largest airline in the United States since its takeover of Hawaiian Airlines last year. The two companies have a fleet of more than 360 planes which serve around 140 destinations, mainly in the west of the United States and in the Hawaii archipelago.

“We apologize to our customers for this inconvenience”said the company in a statement. The declaration, also published on X, aroused negative reactions from apparently frustrated passengers. This incident occurs more than a year after a cork rack-selling a redundant rescue outcome-of a newly delivered Boeing 737 Max 9 was detached during a flight from Alaska Airlines between Portland (Oregon) and Ontario (California) in January 2024.