Computer failure halts American Airlines flights

American Airlines, the world's biggest airline, on Thursday blamed a computer failure for grounding its flights to and from the three cities of Dallas, Chicago and Miami.

According to local TV station ABC13, flights on both American and its regional affiliate, American Eagle, were halted at around 10 a.m. local time on Thursday and the outage lasted nearly two hours.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also detailed that American Airlines planes destined for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, O'Hare Airport in Chicago and Miami International Airport were temporarily grounded during the outage.

American Airlines, which is headquartered in Fort Worth, northern Texas, confirmed the outage and attributed it to a computer problem, but did not say what led to the outage and how many flights were affected.

The airline has resumed all its flights hours after successfully resolving the technology problem.

It is not a strange thing for airlines that just merged not a long time. United Airlines, another major U.S. airline, also experienced similar outages after it merged with Continental Airlines in 2010.

American Airlines merged with U.S. Airways in December 2013 and the two airlines just got a single air operator's certificate in April this year.

The airlines plans to complete combining the reservations systems of American and its U.S. Airways subsidiary and retiring the U.S. Airways brand. Enditem