US Air Travel Should Normalize Sunday After Ground Stop Triggers Mass Cancellations, FAA Says
The FAA said system testing continues after a router issue triggered more than 5,300 cancellations and nearly 6,300 delays Saturday, FlightAware said.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that U.S. air travel should largely return to normal schedules by late Sunday, following a nationwide flight shutdown that halted nearly all departing flights for almost five hours on Friday.
- Officials traced the disruption to FAA contractor L3Harris, which installed a faulty router at a remote facility that triggered data overloading across 17 of the agency's 22 en route centers.
- Airlines canceled more than 5,300 flights and delayed almost 6,300 on Saturday. Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines each canceled about 25 percent of their flights, while JetBlue canceled nearly 45 percent.
- Representatives Rick Larsen and Andre Carson, slated to chair the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee next year, vowed to hold the administration accountable. They noted the Transportation Department only spent $1 billion of the $12.5 billion received last year.
- Secretary Duffy called for $50 billion in funding to upgrade air traffic control systems on Friday, an increase from his earlier $30 billion request. House Speaker Mike Johnson stated on Saturday that he supports approving additional funding this year.
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US air travel should normalise Sunday after ground stop triggers mass cancellations, FAA says
Washington, Nov 15: Airlines canceled thousands of flights across the US on Saturday as they worked to recover from a nationwide ground stop that left passengers scrambling for seats and disrupted travel around the world. The US air travel schedule should be back to normal by the end of Sunday, two days after what was the nation's longest ground stop in 25 years, Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Bryan Bedford said, declaring the “wo…
More than 14,000 flights were canceled or delayed on Saturday.
US aviation chaos to continue on Sunday as thousands of flights remain cancelled
US aviation chaos is expected to continue on Sunday after an FAA communications system failure led to thousands of flight cancellations and delays. More than 6,150 flights were cancelled and 7,300 delayed by Saturday evening, as airlines struggled to restore normal operations.
U.S. air travel should recover from ground stop by end of November 15, FAA says
New technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours, Trump administration officials said
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