American Airlines flights grounded

Passengers are using social media to flood American Airlines with complaints after an outage caused the company to ground the fleet. Picture: Joe Raedle Source: Getty Images

AMERICAN Airlines flights across the United States are grounded because of computer problems.

American asked the Federal Aviation Administration to halt its flights until 5 pm EDT (7am AEST). Flights on regional affiliate American Eagle heading to Dallas, Chicago or New York's LaGuardia Airport have been stopped until 3.30pm EDT.

Some passengers are stuck on planes while others cannotmake reservations.

Passengers are using social media to flood the airline with complaints.

American Airlines spokesman Kent Powell said Tuesday that the airline is trying to resolve the issues as quickly as it can.

On Twitter, American is sending out apologies but not offering customers much information about when the problem will be fixed.

American Airlines is a codeshare with Qantas, so Australian travellers may be affected.

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