American Airlines says technical issue at Sabre hit operations

[May 21, 2021]  (Reuters) - American Airlines said on Friday that travel technology firm Sabre Corp had a technical issue that impacted multiple carriers, including its own.

American Airlines said the technical issue had been resolved.

Virgin Australia, which also uses Sabre's technology for air bookings, said in a tweet earlier on Friday its flights were impacted by a global system outage, which was affecting its check-in and boarding systems. (https://bit.ly/3wokLcl)

(Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)

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