An American Airlines 737-800 sporting the new colors at Atlanta earlier this month. Photo: Andrew Thon – OPShots Contributor //
American Airlines played catch-up Wednesday, resuming most flights and even adding a handful that weren’t on the schedule to help passengers stranded by a massive technology failure that grounded the carrier’s entire U.S. fleet a day earlier.But some cancellations persisted, and delays were still common. About a third of American flights were late as of mid-afternoon.American’s CEO blamed Tuesday’s breakdown on a software problem that knocked out computer systems needed for booking flights, tracking bags, loading and fueling planes and more.”As you’d imagine, we do have redundancies in our system,” Tom Horton, chief executive of parent company AMR Corp., said in an apology to passengers posted on YouTube. “But unfortunately in this case, we had a software issue that impacted both our primary and backup systems.”
via American Airlines resumes most flights – Yahoo! Finance.
