SEATTLE: Giant US carrier Southwest Airlines was ramping operations back up on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) after canceling some 500 flights following a second major outage in 24 hours due to computer issues.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a 45-minute nationwide ground stop at the airline's request that concluded at around 1830 GMT, an FAA spokesman said in an email.

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