By Danny Lee, Bloomberg News (TNS)

United Airlines Holdings Inc. started to resume flights after fixing a tech issue that temporarily grounded planes and delayed hundreds of flights across the U.S. Wednesday evening.

The Chicago-based carrier, the biggest airline in the world by capacity, said it was restarting operations to get customers to their destinations, albeit delayed, after a software problem impacted departing flights.

“The underlying technology issue has been resolved, and, while we expect residual delays, our team is working to restore our normal operations,” the airline said in a statement. The outage wasn’t related to recent instances of cybersecurity issues in the airline industry, a United spokesman said.

Airline tracking site FlightAware showed almost 1,000 United fl

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