{"id":125637,"date":"2025-08-07T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125637\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:30:19","slug":"united-airlines-warns-of-additional-delays-amid-ground-stop-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125637\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines warns of \u2018additional delays\u2019 amid ground stop \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology issues caused<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/ground-stop-halts-all-united-airlines-flights-in-chicago-and-other-major-hubs\/3805860\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/ground-stop-halts-all-united-airlines-flights-in-chicago-and-other-major-hubs\/3805860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a groundstop on United Airlines flights at numerous hubs<\/a>, and the company warns flight delays are possible.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the company, a \u201ctechnology issue\u201d led to a ground stop that halted flights bound for Chicago, Newark, Denver and Houston. While the issue has been resolved as of 9 p.m. Central time, officials believe that additional delays could still occur, and a ground stop remained in place. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working with customers to get them to their destinations after a technology disruption on Wednesday evening. The underlying technology issue has been resolved, and, while we expect residual delays, our team is working to restore our normal operations,&#8221; a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The FAA reported that a ground stop went into effect at approximately 6:33 p.m. at the airports, halting flights bound for numerous hubs within United\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>The airline blamed a &#8220;technology issue&#8221; for the outages, which impacted flights across the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a technology issue, we are holding United mainline flights at their departure airports,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;Safety is our top priority, and we\u2019ll work with our customers to get them to their destinations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The system that houses information about each flight and communicates that to other systems the airline uses, like those that calculate weight and track flight times, was impacted by the &#8220;technology issue,&#8221; a United Airline spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The outage, which was not related to cybersecurity, began just after 5 p.m., the airline spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, flights were delayed by an average of two hours due to the issue, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology issues caused a groundstop on United Airlines flights at numerous hubs, and the company warns flight delays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,6395],"class_list":{"0":"post-125637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-ohare-airport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986079037855419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}