United Continental flights resume after temporary grounding
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Updated: 9:15 a.m. | Posted: 8:30 a.m.
United Airlines flights across the country resumed Wednesday morning after being grounded briefly because of technical issues.
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport spokesperson Pat Hogan said United alerted MSP officials that the issues had been resolved.
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The Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic advisory system said the grounding was done at the airline's request, and was due to "automation issues." It applied only to United Airlines and its related carriers.
United said in a statement Wednesday that the problems were related to "network connectivity."
Hogan said the outage didn't affect flights at MSP.
"There were no problems here, at least based on the flight system, the feed that we get from the airline," Hogan said. "That indicates there were no delays or cancellations at MSP from United."
It was the second time in two months that the Chicago carrier has been hit by major technical issues. United Continental Holdings Inc. had a temporary halt to all takeoffs in the U.S. on June 2 because of what the airline said were computer automation issues.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
