MIAMI — American Airlines airplanes are back up in the air after an outage forced its flights to remain grounded for nearly an hour.
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The airline says the issue was due to an IT problem.
A technology issue briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems on Tuesday evening. Systems are coming back online now and flights are departing again. We put a temporary ground stop in place while our teams worked to resolve the issue. We apologize to our customers for…
— americanair (@AmericanAir) July 28, 2026
Their teams rushed to get the problem resolved, and flights have since resumed.
The delay has still caused headaches for travelers across the country.
A spokesperson for Miami International Airport said it was too early to show how many flights were affected at MIA, but a flight board indicated that there were several delays, though no cancellations were seen.
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Local 10’s Aaron Maybin headed to Miami International Airport to assess the situation, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.
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