A fire alarm at ' Chicago operations center triggered a brief nationwide ground stop, with employees temporarily moving to a ...

United Airlines temporarily grounded all mainline flights nationwide due to a fire alarm at its Chicago operations center, ...

Mainline United Airlines flights were briefly halted nationwide due to a fire alarm at a suburban Chicago facility on ...

United Airlines was forced to issue a nationwide ground stop for its entire fleet after a fire alarm sounded at its ...

United Airlines issued a nationwide ground stop for all mainline flights on Thursday after its Chicago operations center ...

Update: @united has lifted the ground stop for the U.S. and Canada. — The FAA ️ (@FAANews) September 5, 2023 More coverage: Air travel, transit, railroads ...

The FAA confirmed the ground stop had been lifted as of around 12:50 p.m. Central Time, after being in place for more than an hour. United confirmed it was resuming flights. As of 1:30 p.m ...

It was less than an hour from the time that the FAA issued a bulletin about United's ground stop until the agency said that flights were resuming – shortly before 2 p.m. Eastern time.

According to televised news reports, United had advised that airborne flights would continue to their destinations during the ground stop, but those on the ground would be held at the gate.

United Airlines briefly paused flights nationwide on Friday morning amid reports of a system outage.. The airline issued a ground stop on all its traffic in the United States and Canada, according ...

United Airlines said Tuesday it repaired a technology glitch that had forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation's biggest carriers on a busy travel day.