By David Meyer
Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of nationwide computer issues.
Air travelers took to Twitter by the thousands with reports of what airline staff reportedly told them was a computer system outage â hours after âintermittent performance issuesâ with a third-party weather app forced a similar group stop Monday night.
âWe are aware of system issues and are working quickly to resolve. We will share more info soon,â Southwest posted on its official Twitter account at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Airline operations resumed shortly before 4 p.m., Southwest said in a statement.
The carrier attributed Tuesdayâs meltdown to âintermittent performance issues with⊠network connectivity,â and said it had âproactively canceledâ about 500 flights because of the disruption.
âWeâre working with those Customers to get them to their destinations as quickly as possible,â said spokesman Chris Mainz…
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