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SYSTEMS DOWN United Airlines down: Travel company experiencing system-wide outage causing issues boarding and using website
Mollie Mansfield
7:09 ET, Sep 17 2021Updated: 7:48 ET, Sep172021
UNITED Airlines is experiencing a huge outage causing issues for passengers boarding planes and using the website.
Reports that the website was down started at around 7am EST on Friday morning.
Users were experiencing issues with both the website and the app, including having trouble logging in.
In a series of tweets, United Airlines apologized for the hold-up and said "our teams are working on this issue now."
"We appreciate your patience as we work to get the website and app restored," the airline said.
However, the issues quickly impacted real-life with passengers having issues boarding planes at some airports across the country.
Reports also suggested that the airline has a nationwide ground stop that was related to the outage.
One passenger tweeted the airline asking: "What's going on at Newark? All flights grounded."
Another said: "Cincinnati United Airlines is saying they are experiencing a nationwide system outage and cannot do anything with checking-in or boarding flights."
However, this appeared to be lifted just before 8am EST, according to a pilot on a flight departing from Denver airport.
Another passenger said flights finally were boarding in Columbus, Ohio, following the outage.
According to a DownDetector map,the main issues were reported in New York, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Sun has contacted United Airlines for comment.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3679975/united-airlines-down-outage-website-boarding/