(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines said its website and app were down on Wednesday, days after a technology outage grounded its flights across the U.S. The airline said the latest disruption stemmed from a global outage affecting Microsoft’s Azure platform, which has impacted key systems, including its websites. The issue was being looked into, the carrier said […]
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Alaska Airlines says website, app down amid global Azure outage
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(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines said its website and app were down on Wednesday, days after a technology outage grounded its flights across the U.S.
The airline said the latest disruption stemmed from a global outage affecting Microsoft’s Azure platform, which has impacted key systems, including its websites.
The issue was being looked into, the carrier said on X, as it responded to customers who were facing challenges while accessing the company’s website.
The ground-stop caused by last week’s technology outage forced the carrier to cancel over 400 flights, and disrupted travel for more than 49,000 passengers.
Shares of Alaska were down about 2% in afternoon trading.
(Reporting by Nathan Gomes and Abhinav Parmar in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo and Shailesh Kuber)