Computer outage causes worldwide flight delays

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Flight delays around the world were blamed on an airline reservation system firm's computer outage.

Jets were grounded at airports across the globe after Sabre experienced a massive computer outage at about 5.20am on Tuesday, August 6.

Crowds of people were left waiting hours for their flights on affected airlines including Alaska Airlines, American, Cathay Pacific, Frontier, Jet Blue, LAN, Quantas, United, Virgin America and Virgin Australia.
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