Government Technology

Hardware Failure, IT Outage Grounded Alaska Airlines Planes

(TNS) — Carl LaFraugh already anticipated a lengthy travel day when his vacation in Skagway, Alaska, came to an end. He planned to catch a red-eye flight from Juneau to Sea-Tac Airport early Monday ...
The Spokesman-Review

Alaska Airlines says hardware failure led to IT outage, grounding planes

Alaska Airlines is rushing to fix a major disruption to its service after a hardware failure forced a ground stop of its planes for around three hours Sunday night. The airline was still continuing to ...
KTVB

Alaska Airlines cancels 150 flights due to hardware failure, Boise travelers impacted

BOISE, Idaho — Some impacts of the Alaska Airlines issue were felt at the Boise Airport on Monday, as several flights remained grounded. A July 20 carrier issue resulted in five flights being canceled ...
Network World

‘Significant’ outage at Alaska Airlines not a security incident, but a hardware breakdown

The airline confirmed that the failure of a third-party piece of hardware grounded flights, underscoring the fact that even systems that are multiply-redundant can go down. An outage that grounded ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Alaska Airlines says hardware failure led to IT outage, grounding planes

Carl LaFraugh already anticipated a lengthy travel day when his vacation in Skagway came to an end. He planned to catch a red-eye flight from Juneau to Sea-Tac Airport early Monday morning. But then a ...