(CNN) Federal Aviation Administration Tuesday morning Raised a national ground station for Southwest Airlines flights after the order was issued earlier, citing “equipment problems”.
The FAA says flights to Dallas Love Field are still being suspended. There may still be further flight delays as a result of this pause.
“Southwest Airlines has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily halt the airline’s departure,” the agency told CNN in a statement.
Southwest reported technology issues Tuesday morning and said it “hopes to resume operations as soon as possible.”
The problems come months after the airline had to cancel more than 16,700 flights between Dec. 20-29, nearly half of its schedule over that period. the The airline partially attributed the collapse For changes to computer systems scheduling personnel. Southwest last month Unveiling an action plan To prevent another operational breakdown.
On Tuesday, flight-tracking website FlightAware said that nearly 2,500 of the company’s flights — about 30% of its schedule — are delayed by the furthest of any US carrier.
Southwest described the problem as “intermittent technical issues” in a post on customers’ social media. Many have taken to social media to complain about delayed flights.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we hope to get everyone going as quickly as possible,” the airline wrote in another social media post.
CNN has reached out to Southwest and the Federal Aviation Administration for further comment.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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