Technical Glitch Affects Flights At T.F. Green Airport

WARWICK, RI — A technical glitch that hit several major airlines early Monday morning is affecting flights into and out of Rhode Island. Cancellations and delays have impacted travel at T.F. Green as airlines including American, Southwest and United scramble to recover. Delta was also impacted by the outage, but did not expect to have any flight cancellations, the Associated Press reported.

Flights arriving in Warwick throughout the morning and afternoon have been affected, with several canceled and most arriving at a different time than originally scheduled.

Fewer departures have been affected, with only two listed cancellations and a handful of delays throughout the morning and afternoon.

According to the Associated Press, the issue was caused by AeroData, an outside company that makes aircraft location technology. Southwest Airlines grounded its fleet for about 40 minutes and was back in the air by 7 a.m., the Associated Press continued, but the damage was already done, and the ripple effects have caused travel delays throughout the morning.

United Airlines said that about 150 of its flights had been affected, the Associated Press reported, and while Delta was forced to delay several flights from leaving on time, it does not expect any cancellations.