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There had been nothing going out on the West Coast mainline and hardly any announcements, she said.

The tax burden would be disproportionately felt by progressive mainline Protestant churches, Black evangelical churches and immigrant-majority Catholic and Protestant congregations, not to mention immigrant-majority mosques and temples.

Alexander told BBC Breakfast that BTP officers would increase visible patrols at mainline stations over the coming days "because I do understand that people will want to feel reassured following what happened".

Alaska faced a similar outage just three months ago when a critical piece of hardware at a data center failed, bringing down its systems and forcing it to cancel about 10% of its mainline schedule.

In July, Alaska canceled dozens of flights, or about 10% of its mainline schedule, after a critical piece of hardware at a data center failed, bringing down airline systems.