MIAMI — American Airlines airplanes are back up in the air after an outage forced its flights to remain grounded for nearly an hour.
The airline says the issue was due to an IT problem.
A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening. Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again. We put a temporary ground stop in place while our teams worked to resolve the issue. We apologize to our customers for…
— americanair (@AmericanAir) July 28, 2026
Their teams rushed to get the problem resolved, and flights have since resumed…