FAA issues ground stop nationwide for all AIaska Airlines, Horizon flights

Alaska Airlines asked the Federal Aviation Administration to contented a crushed halt Wednesday greeting for each mainline departures nationwide.

The crushed halt went into effect astir 7:50 a.m. PT, the institution said.

An Alaska Airlines Embraer 175 airplane bound for Portland, Ore., takes disconnected Monday, March 4, 2019, astatine Paine Field successful Everett, Wash.

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"This greeting we experienced an contented portion performing an upgrade to the strategy that calculates our value and balance," Alaska said successful a statement. "We're moving to resoluteness the contented arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and promote guests to cheque the presumption of their flights connected alaskaair.com oregon the Alaska App anterior to heading to the airport.

The crushed halt includes Horizon flights.

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