(CNN) The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday morning lifted a national ground stop for Southwest Airlines flight after the early issuance of the order, citing “equipment issues.”
There are continued restrictions on flights at Dallas Love Field Airport, the FAA said. There may be other residual flight delays due to the stopover.
“Southwest Airlines has asked the FAA to stop the plane’s departure,” the agency told CNN in a statement.
Southwest reported the technology issues Tuesday morning and said it “hopes to resume our operations as soon as possible.”
The problems come months after the airline was forced to cancel more than 16,700 flights between December 20 and 29, almost half of its schedule for that period. The airline attributed the collapse in part to changes in computerized staff scheduling systems. Southwest last month unveiled an “action plan” to prevent another operational collapse.
On Tuesday, flight tracking website FlightAware said nearly 2,500 of the airline’s flights – about 30% of its schedule – were delayed, the most of any US carrier.
Southwest called the problem “intermittent technology issues” in a social media post to customers. Many took to social media to complain about delayed flights.
“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we hope that everything goes ASAP,” the airline wrote in another social media post.
CNN has reached out to Southwest and the Federal Aviation Administration for further comment.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
