Global IT Outages Ground Flights at California Airports but Emergency Services Remain Online

Published on July 19, 2024

A global computer outage grounded flights in Southern California on Friday morning as reports of possible outages across the nation and the world affected companies including Microsoft and Google on Thursday night. According to a report from City News Service, Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman Dae Levin said there were delays on United, Delta, and American Airlines flights on Friday. Departing flights were delayed after airlines in Los Angeles, Hollywood Burbank Airport, and Long Beach Airport requested that the Federal Aviation Administration—the U.S. agency overseeing aviation domestically and abroad—ground all flights following reports of outages in multiple countries, the report said....