All United Continental flights in US grounded due to computer problems

The extent of the problem and whether it affected flights outside the United States was not immediately known. The company said that passengers who could voluntarily change their travel plans due to this grounding will not have to pay the normal fees imposed on such changes, reports CNN Money.

At Logan global in Boston, flights were kept at their gates and have started to re-board, Massport the airport operator.

This story is still unfolding so check back with News For Shoppers, as we will update as details become available. The Experts said that the day’s event could account for maximum cost for united airlines which have worked to regain its footing and worked out most problems in merging with Continental Airlines. “He made a bad situation a little better”. If passengers did not have a hard-copy of their boarding pass, one Connecticut airport would not let them check in.

“We’re recovering from a network connectivity issue & restoring flight (operations)”, United said via Twitter. Fortunately, Jeh Johnson, Chief of Homeland Security assured the public that the airline glitch was not in any way connected to the stock exchange problem.

 At least two dozen flights are still being affected by a United Airlines computer glitch that occurred Wednesday morning. Delays were more widespread, with about 800 across United’s nationwide network as of early Wednesday afternoon. The FAA stop order will have reduced the harm, since flight schedules can be moved as a block rather than individually, but there are still going to be a lot of missed connections. “The system is up and running”, he said. Those outages caused hundreds of flights to be delayed.

The problems were the latest malfunction for United since the carrier switched to the computer systems used by merger partner Continental Airlines in 2012. Post reported that about an hour later, only “mainline flights” were still grounded.