US air travel schedule should recover from ground stop by the end of Sunday, FAA says – WTOP News
- On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded planes for over four hours—the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years—after new technology overloaded antiquated air traffic control equipment, causing "intermittent" communications and radar gaps.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a contractor replacing copper wires with fiber optic lines caused the system overload; he and the White House are pushing for $30 billion more to complete critical infrastructure upgrades.
- The stoppage affected about a quarter of 45,000 daily U.S. flights, with more than 4,100 cancellations. Aviation consultant Andrew Charlton said the "knock-on effect" of the disruption is incredible.
- FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Saturday that U.S. air travel should be fully recovered by the end of tomorrow, though flights will still experience delays and cancellations throughout the day.
- Modernizing active aviation systems is "incredibly complex and dangerous," aviation consultant Andrew Charlton warned, as officials investigate potential contractor "incompetence" while aging equipment remains a long-term concern.
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Air chaos continues in the United States after Friday's suspension of flights.
The chaos that disrupted U.S. air traffic, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded in airports and causing the cancellation of thousands of flights, started from a problem of old systems...
US air travel schedule should recover from ground stop by the end of Sunday, Federal Aviation Administration says
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said a contractor had been working on replacing a section of the system's old copper wire with new fiber wire, and that w
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Air traffic in the United States is still dealing with severe disruptions on Saturday following Friday's hours-long nationwide flight ban. Approximately 3,500 flights have been canceled and 1,200 flights are experiencing delays, according to aviation data agency FlightAware. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that more than 16,000 flights were canceled due to the incident.
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