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Hoo boy. It’s Christmas Eve — one of the busiest travel days of the year — and American Airlines has grounded all flights due to a ‘technical’ issue.

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Yikes. Speculation abounded as to what the technical issue was:

Seems to have only impacted American Airlines.

Others thought it was an issue with scanning boarding passes:

Thankfully, the glitch was short-lived, according to CNN:

Following a brief outage that grounded all American airlines flights during one of the busiest travel periods of the year, American Airlines says it has resumed service Tuesday morning.

American Airlines said a “technical issue” had delayed all of its flights in the United States. But the company began boarding flights again at around 8 am ET, airline spokeswoman Sarah Jantz told CNN.

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its nationwide groundstop order for all American flights. The FAA in a statement said American requested a nationwide ground stop but it referred all questions to the airline for more information.

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We wonder what the technical issue was?

This is good news.

American Airlines employees did their best.

They do. Probably more than you want to fly.

Lots of people asking themselves this question, probably.

We’re glad things seem to be back up and running without significant delays.

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But there were some alternative suggestions floating around if things had dragged out:

Gus Polinski would get you to your family.

Excellent movie.

Here’s hoping we’ve had our hiccup for the holiday season.