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Alaska Airlines Temporarily Grounds Entire Fleet

FILE - In this Monday, April 4, 2016, file photo, Alaska Airlines planes with the company's new livery and tail logo, left, and the old livery used to promote service to Hawaii, right, are shown parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Alaska Airlines slipped past rival Hawaiian Airlines to post the best on-time rating for U.S. carriers in July 2016, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday, Sept. 13. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Alaska Airlines announced they had temporarily grounded their U.S. air fleet Wednesday morning due to issues stemming from a computer system upgrade, NBC News reported.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued its approval of the act for both Alaska Airlines and Horizon flights.

The airlines said that an issue arose when they were “performing an upgrade to the system that calculates our weight and balance” in a statement, NBC News reported.

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