Southwest Airlines is experiencing significant delays due to a system wide outage.
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Southwest posted on Twitter that it is investigating the problems with its computer systems, telling frustrated passengers that it is a “tech outage”. Southwest departures from Los Angeles International Airport were also being delayed, airport authorities said on Twitter.
This is the image that appears when a user tries to access Southwest’s website.
Some passengers reported that Southwest was in the process of issuing hand-written paper tickets to get fliers back in the air.
Tweets poured in from Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, Baltimore and other major airports across the country, saying the failure was causing flight delays.
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Industry consultants say the impact of computer disruptions will keep growing as airlines automate an increasing chunk of operations, distribute boarding passes on smartphones and outfit their planes with Wifi.
