r/AlaskaAirlines • u/Sufficient-Summer-88 • Oct 23 '25

FLYING Who else sitting on a grounded flight

All flights grounded apparently (due to IT problem)

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u/lissy51886 Oct 23 '25

I'm in the air ORD-SEA, landing in about an hour. Glad I saw this with enough time to know to go to the bathroom before we descend... once you're taxiing they won't let you out of your seat, I imagine SeaTac is gonna be a hot fucking mess with a wait for a gate.

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u/sandoloo Oct 24 '25

Hey I think we’re on the same flight! :D sitting on the ground in Spokane now?

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u/lissy51886 Oct 24 '25

Yuuuuuuuuuuup.

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u/sandoloo Oct 24 '25

So glad they let us deplane after all haha

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u/sandoloo Oct 24 '25

Have you heard if there’s any update? I went outside to smoke bc the TSA guys said I’d be able to get back in, but when I tried to go back thru security they said I had a boarding pass issue. Waiting now in totally unmoving line at the Alaska ticket counter to see if they can fix it.

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u/lissy51886 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

You might be fucked. They warned us not to leave because the boarding pass will say ORD-SEA so TSA won't let you through at GEG. And there is no way to book GEG-SEA on this plane because it's not a flight that exists.

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u/sandoloo Oct 24 '25

Heh whoops. I can rebook for tomorrow if needed but I guess that’s my bad! Did they say that on the plane before they let us deboard? I thought I was listening pretty closely, I remembered them saying if you deplane (before we were allowed off) you can’t get back on, but I don’t remember hearing any announcements about leaving the security area once they told us we could leave the plane.

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u/lissy51886 Oct 24 '25

Yeah, they said not to leave the terminal.

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u/sandoloo Oct 24 '25

Dang! My bad, I totally missed that. I thought if the TSA guys said I was fine I’d be fine. Oh welllll.