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Alaska Airlines has resumed flights after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its planes for approximately three hours, but the effects will linger into Monday, the company announced. The carrier issued a system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights around 8 p.m. Pacific time Sunday. The stop was lifted …

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Facebook Tweet Email Link The end of an era is official for Southwest Airlines passengers. On Monday, the airline announced a start date for its new assigned seating, which will bring the airline’s longstanding open-seat boarding tradition to an end. For flights beginning on January 27, 2026, passengers will have options for seat selection at the time of booking, Southwest …

Southwest Airlines has officially set the date for its big changeover to assigned seats and has laid out exactly how its all-new boarding process will work. The airline’s long-standing open seating policy will officially end Jan. 27, 2026, the Dallas-based carrier announced Monday. Passengers booked on all flights from that day forward will receive specific seat assignments. Customers booking 2026 …

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CHICAGO — Alaska Airlines warned of more flight disruptions on Monday after an unexpected failure of a critical piece of hardware at its data centers late Sunday forced it to halt all flights for about three hours. The Seattle-based airline had canceled 66 or 7% of its scheduled flights on Monday, while 110, or 12%, of its scheduled flights were …

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images Southwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC. Customers can start buying tickets with assigned seats …

Alaska Airlines has resumed operations following an undisclosed technical error affecting its entire system for approximately three hours, the company announced. The carrier experienced an “IT outage that resulted in a temporary, system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights” around 8 p.m. Pacific time Sunday. The stop was lifted at 11 p.m., the Seattle-based company said in …

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Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary Horizon Air requested a ground stop to all flights Sunday night due to a computer system outage. The request to federal authorities kept Alaska and Horizon flights out of the air until the FAA said the stop was lifted after 2 a.m. ET. Monday. In a statement earlier, Alaska said the outage involved its …