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Alaska Airlines requests grounding of fleet citing 'IT outage'.

Alaska airlines plane seen at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on January 11, 2023. [AFP] 

Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft according to an advisory notice by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with the company citing an "IT outage."

The airline told AFP that on Sunday it "experienced an IT outage that's impacting our operations" and that it "requested a temporary, system-wide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air flights until the issue is resolved."

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