Scores of American Airlines passengers traveling home for Christmas were left unhappy after technical problems caused all flights to be grounded.
Christmas travelers have been filmed stranded at airports across America after waiting for news of the tanno.
Due to heavy traffic over the Christmas period, delays will be even greater as most holiday tickets are sold out.
It’s the latest high-profile technology failure in the industry following a global outage involving Microsoft’s Azure platform and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike earlier this year.