By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Southwest Airlines said on Tuesday it was in the process of resuming normal operations after it was forced to temporarily halt flights over a computer issue.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it had issued a temporary nationwide groundstop earlier at the request of Southwest Airlines to resolve a computer reservation issue. The groundstop lasted about 45 minutes, and ended at 2:30 p.m. EDT, it said.
Southwest said the issue was the result of “intermittent performance issues with our network connectivity.”
Just after midnight Tuesday, Southwest Airlines reported a separate issue that also required a groundstop after its “third-party weather data provider experienced intermittent performance issues … preventing transmission of weather information that is required to safely operate our aircraft.”
The airline said that issue affected several hundred flights.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler and Richard Chang)
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