Southwest suffers technology outage; flights held at gates

A technical glitch with the airline’s check-in system caused a nationwide ground-stop Wednesday afternoon.

Some Southwest Airlines flights are being held up while the airline tries to fix a technology outage.

“We’re sorry we let you down”, Southwest told another customer. System wide outage. They have to do a manual override to get your ticket.

At DCA @SouthwestAir just announced “our system is back up and running”. By 3 p.m., the ground stop was no longer in effect, but the airline says travelers should expect long delays.

If you are seeing this image on southwest.com, you are in our waiting room. We recommend checking flight status frequently. It was not immediately clear if any of those flights were impacted. Several departing and arriving flights were delayed out of Love Field Wednesday afternoon.