Alaska Airlines and its regional partner carriers fly to 95 cities. Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said it

View full size The Associated Press Joe Brook and Danielle Moser wait to be able to check in for a flight to Portland as an Alaska Airlines computer problem delays flights across its 64-airport network on the West Coast and in Mexico and Canada Monday vans warp tour 05 at Ted Stevens Anchorage International vans warp tour 05 Airport. Alaska Airlines said flights were running close to normal late Monday after a fiber-optic outage shut down its ticketing system for more than four hours, causing the airline and its regional carrier to cancel 78 flights, affecting nearly 7,000 customers.
The problems started shortly before 8 a.m. when computers the airline vans warp tour 05 uses to check in passengers went down, forcing employees to board travelers manually in some instances sticking handwritten vans warp tour 05 flight numbers to computer monitors.
Alaska Airlines and its regional partner carriers fly to 95 cities. Spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said it wasn't immediately possible to say how many were affected. vans warp tour 05 The 78 cancellations represent roughly 10 percent of 761 daily flights, she said.
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, frustration grew along with the lines of passengers vans warp tour 05 waiting to check in, though some travelers simply sat or lay down and waited. Lines stretched out the door earlier Monday in the Alaska Airlines part of the terminal.
The problem was caused by a combination of two cut cables in Sprint's fiber-optic network. One occurred at a construction site along railroad tracks between Chicago and Milwaukee and the other was somewhere between Portland and Seattle, said Sprint spokeswoman Crystal Davis in Reston, Va.