Baku – APA. A system-wide computer problem forced Southwest Airlines to ground its entire fleet of airplanes preparing for departures late Friday, and cancellations were expected even after service slowly resumed more than two hours later using a backup system, a company spokesman said, The Republic reported.
Brad Hawkins told The Associated Press an estimated 250 flights — most of them on the West Coast — were grounded at least temporarily. The glitch impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of the aircraft.
He said at least some cancellations were expected because the airline doesn't do redeye flights and was near "the end of our operational day."
Southwest, based in Dallas, conducts, on average, 3,400 flights a day.
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