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Porter Airlines resumes operations after grounding flights due to system outage

Porter Airlines resumes operations after grounding flights due to system outage | iNFOnews.ca
A Porter Airlines plane takes off from Toronto's Island Airport on November 13, 2015. Porter Airlines says all of its arriving and departing flights have been grounded.The low-cost, Toronto-based airline says the delays are because of what it calls a system outage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

TORONTO – Porter Airlines says its operations are returning to normal after a technical problem grounded all its flights Saturday afternoon.

The Toronto-based airline blamed the problem on a system outage, but didn’t immediately have a specific cause.

Aircraft were grounded for about two hours and five flights were cancelled.

Porter said in an email that about 400 passengers were affected, they were given a choice of rescheduling their travel plans or get a refund.

Porter operates flights out of Toronto’s island airport to and from cities in Central and Eastern Canada, and seven locations in the U.S.

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