{"id":1648,"date":"2025-09-24T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/united-airlines-ground-stop-sees-all-planes-briefly-held-across-u-s-and-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:01:19","slug":"united-airlines-ground-stop-sees-all-planes-briefly-held-across-u-s-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/united-airlines-ground-stop-sees-all-planes-briefly-held-across-u-s-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines ground stop sees all planes briefly held across U.S. and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>All United Airlines flights departing in the U.S. and Canada were briefly suspended Tuesday night, as the airline asked the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a ground stop over an unspecified technological issue.<\/p>\n<p>United, which grounded its flights for about half an hour, said it had &#8220;experienced a brief connectivity issue just before midnight Central time on Tuesday, but has since resumed normal operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in less than two months that the U.S. airline had requested a halt to its departures over an unspecified technical glitch. In early August, <span class=\"link\">United flights were subjected to ground stop<\/span> across major U.S. airports including Newark, Denver, Houston and Chicago, which lasted several hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Arriving United Airlines planes sit on the tarmac at Chicago O&#8217;Hare Airport, in an Aug. 8, 2025 file photo during a ground stop prompted by technical issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The airline said at the time that it was a &#8220;technology issue,&#8221; which caused widespread delays throughout its network.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      Tucker  Reals<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com&#8217;s foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and London.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All United Airlines flights departing in the U.S. and Canada were briefly suspended Tuesday night, as the airline asked the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a ground stop over an unspecified technological issue. 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