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Alaska Airlines Faces Major IT Outage, 49,000 Affected

10/26/2025

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Alaska Airlines is restoring operations after an eight-hour IT outage on October 23, 2025, disrupting over 49,000 passengers.
The outage stemmed from a failure at the primary data center and caused more than 400 flight cancellations.
Alaska Airlines acknowledged this is the second major outage this year.
The airline will employ external IT experts.
The incident delayed the quarterly earnings call, resulting in a more than 6% drop in shares.

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Story summary

Alaska Airlines is restoring operations after an eight-hour IT outage on October 23, 2025, disrupting over 49,000 passengers.
The outage stemmed from a failure at the primary data center and caused more than 400 flight cancellations.
Alaska Airlines acknowledged this is the second major outage this year.
The airline will employ external IT experts.
The incident delayed the quarterly earnings call, resulting in a more than 6% drop in shares.