DALLAS – Southwest Airlines paused all departing flights nationwide for about a half hour Tuesday morning due to “internal technical issues,” the FAA said.
“Southwest has resumed operations after temporarily pausing flight activity this morning to work through data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,” Southwest spokesman Dan Landson said in a statement. “Early this morning, a vendor-supplied firewall went down and connection to some operational data was unexpectedly lost.”
Southwest said it was working to connect passengers to flights and that anyone traveling on the airline today should check their flight status and times.
