Southwest has resumed flight activity after delaying flights across the US on Tuesday morning. A firewall failure caused connection issues, but now the planes are moving again.
A failed firewall cut off connection to some operational data, and Southwest asked the FAA to pause all of its flight departures across the US while it worked things out.Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Southwest Airlines has fixed a technical issue that delayed hundreds of flights across the country. In a statement provided to, Southwest Airlines spokesperson Dan Landson says the company resumed operations after working through “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure.”
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