Milwaukee Flights Delayed After Southwest Airlines Outage

MILWAUKEE — Southwest Airlines has fixed a computer outage that grounded its entire fleet and caused delays across the country.

The airline has not disclosed the reason for the disruption, but released a tweet about the situation on Tuesday.

"We are in the process of resuming normal operations after a system issue this afternoon that created flight disruptions throughout our network," the airline said. "We know many customers still require assistance and are working to address those concerns as quickly as possible."

The airline also reported that customer service wait times were longer than normal.

After and earlier computer outage, Southwest has resumed regular operations, but it will take some time to get back to normal. Images from last Tuesday and today at 18:45 UTC. pic.twitter.com/egRbr9w6Bv
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) June 15, 2021

Southwest customers have said their flights were either delayed and canceled on social media.

I spent about $1600 to attend game 5 Brooklyn Nets vs. Milwaukee in the playoffs and @SouthwestAir has single handedly made me lose the opportunity for it all. It’s tech issues but the excuse to me was bad weather while my relative landed same time through @Delta
— lylebandz(@lylebandz) June 15, 2021