The airline said an unspecified technical issue was behind the flight stoppage, disrupting thousands of passengers' holiday travel plans
on Tuesday grounded all its flights in the U.S. due to an unspecified technical issue, according to the company and a regulatory notice, disrupting the travel plans of thousands of passengers set to fly out for Christmas Eve.
American has not provided a timetable for resolving the issue but was telling passengers on social media platform X to direct-message them to deal with ticketing issues and transfers. Numerous passengers were posting on social media that their flights had been stuck on the runway at various airports and were now being sent back to the gate.
American was responding to comments on X as numerous users posted there, as well as on Bluesky and Facebook.
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