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PHOENIX<\/strong> – A double whammy impacted travelers at Phoenix Sky Harbor on Tuesday night as passengers faced a wave of delays across the country\u2014some triggered by storms, others by a nationwide technology issue.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n American Airlines says a technology issue impacted connectivity<\/strong><\/a> for some of their systems, forcing a temporary nationwide ground stop. That ground stop was lifted around 4 p.m., but flight boards showed widespread delays.<\/p>\n Storms across the country also left passengers stranded for hours, including a group of exchange students.<\/p>\n At Phoenix Sky Harbor, Charity Stuart was coordinating students in the EF Exchange program<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, that’s nothing we can control, but it does add a layer of stress,” Stuart said.<\/p>\n Stuart says a combination of the American Airlines tech glitch and East Coast weather left some teenagers stranded for more than 10 hours.<\/p>\n “Some of my families, they have birthdays today,” Stuart said. “They don\u2019t even get to celebrate their birthdays with their student.”<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n In the early evening, only 13 out of the 42 exchange students had arrived.<\/p>\n “I love our host families and I understand the struggle they’re going through, and I really appreciate them leaning on me for support and being patient,” Stuart said.<\/p>\n Talking with her exchange student Eira on the phone, Eira said she was delayed in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n “It’s very frustrating because we just want to come in and meet our host parents and come to the States,” Eira said.<\/p>\n American Airlines says it has resolved the IT glitch that prompted the ground stop, but it still left some American Airlines passengers changing their plans.<\/p>\n “We had to lengthen our car rental, but that actually went fairly smoothly, and we had a place to go,” said Jenny Wirtz, who was flying American Airlines.<\/p>\n Although the ground stop has been lifted, multiple American Airlines flights remained delayed at Phoenix Sky Harbor.<\/p>\n “They actually rolled us over to the previous flights, so fingers crossed we’re going to get home tonight,” said Roshni Ruben, who was also flying American Airlines.<\/p>\n Arizona<\/a>Consumer<\/a>News<\/a>Travel News<\/a>Air and Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – A double whammy impacted travelers at Phoenix Sky Harbor on Tuesday night as passengers faced a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":966047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[70350,5229,5643,1587,2436,50,1589,159,18900,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-966046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-air-space","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-consumer","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-science","tag-travel-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117001395136495783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966046","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=966046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}