All Alaska Airlines flights were suspended Thursday night due to a tech outage.

The airline said in a statement provided to CBS News that it had experienced "an IT outage affecting operations" and had "issued a temporary ground stop." It did not elaborate on the nature of the outage.

In a follow-up social media post at around 10 p.m. Eastern Time, the airline indicated that its systems may be coming back online, writing that it was "actively restoring our operations following an IT outage."

However, a little before 11:30 p.m., the airline noted on social media the outage was still ongoing, saying it had "resulted in cancellations of some of our flights this evening and into tomorrow." The exact number of impacted flights was unclear.

Ground stops are issued by the Federal Aviation

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