US: Airline websites briefly down after Google technical issue

Websites for the three largest US airlines were briefly down on Wednesday because of a technical issue with flight data software they use from Alphabet Inc’s Google. American Airlines, Delta and United all experienced downtime. “For roughly 90 minutes today, a glitch in our flight shopping software prevented our airline partners from displaying fare information. We have now resolved the issue,” Google spokesman Craig Ewer said. American said in a statement that the issue did not affect flight operations. Outage monitoring website DownDetector showed a spike in reports of problems, mainly related to website issues, beginning around 1:30 p.m. ET, before tapering off.<br/>