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The airline said it expected additional flight delays through Wednesday night “as we work through the issue.”

By Stacy Cowley

United Airlines grounded flights across the country on Wednesday because of a system outage, and warned that it expected problems through the evening.

“Due to a technology issue, we are holding United mainline flights at their departure airports,” the airline said in a statement around 8:30 p.m. Eastern time. “We expect additional flight delays this evening as we work through this issue.”