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Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flights and thousands of passengers’ travel plans were disrupted over the weekend and well into Monday following a “significant IT outage” that resulted in the grounding of planes for about three hours.

Alaska Airlines has revealed that an "unexpected failure" of a critical piece of hardware caused an IT outage that led to its entire fleet being grounded.

The outage was a result of an unexpected hardware failure in Alaska's data centers and is not related to cybersecurity issues, the airline said.

Shortly after reports of the outage started appearing online, Google issued an incident report on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard. "Various Workspace services are experiencing elevated latency and error rates," the report said. It also confirmed that the affected services include Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet and Google Workspace.

Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary Horizon Air requested a ground stop to all flights Sunday night due to a computer system outage. The request to federal authorities kept Alaska and Horizon flights out of the air until the FAA said the stop was lifted after 2 a.m. ET. Monday.

Alaska experienced an IT outage around 8 p.m. Travelers were advised to expect "residual impacts" after the ground stop ended at 11 p.m.

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