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03-22-2016, 12:35 PM
Airline system glitch in Japan grounds 120 flights, leaves 16,000 stranded
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More than 50 airports across Japan were the scenes of major chaos Tuesday, when national airline carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) experienced an outage on its check-in system for its flights.
According to Japan Times, the system went down (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/22/national/system-glitch-temporarily-grounds-anas-domestic-flights/#.VvDwbRJ95TZ) at around 8:20 a.m. local time. The airline quickly posted a **tice (http://www.ana.co.jp/asw/topinfo/info_e.jsp?infoID=d20160322121616&info_tool_flag=1) on its website apologising for delays and cancellations due to a "system malfunction."
The system glitch affected all airports with ANA flights, with Tokyo's Haneda International Airport — its main domestic hub — being hit the worst.
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More than 50 airports across Japan were the scenes of major chaos Tuesday, when national airline carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) experienced an outage on its check-in system for its flights.
According to Japan Times, the system went down (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/22/national/system-glitch-temporarily-grounds-anas-domestic-flights/#.VvDwbRJ95TZ) at around 8:20 a.m. local time. The airline quickly posted a **tice (http://www.ana.co.jp/asw/topinfo/info_e.jsp?infoID=d20160322121616&info_tool_flag=1) on its website apologising for delays and cancellations due to a "system malfunction."
The system glitch affected all airports with ANA flights, with Tokyo's Haneda International Airport — its main domestic hub — being hit the worst.
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