United Airlines Domestic Flights Grounded for 2 Hours by Computer Outage
The US airline industry has a serious problem with these outages. By my count, 4 major airlines have been hit with system-wide computer-related outages in the last year (southest, jetblue, delta, united).This article goes into some detail of why it happens: http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/08/technology/delta-airline-com.... It seems like human error and fragile computer systems are the biggest issues.