FAA ground stop disrupts NBA, NHL and college football weekend travel
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Summary
A telecommunications outage at 22 regional air traffic control centers led the FAA to halt departing flights nationwide for more than four hours on Friday. The stop disrupted travel for more than 1.5 million passengers, including professional and college sports teams, and airlines warned that recovery would take time.Key Facts
- The FAA lifted the nationwide ground stop at 8:15 p.m. Eastern time on Friday.
- Cirium estimated that about 11,000 flights carrying more than 1.5 million passengers were scheduled to depart U.S. airports after 4 p.m. Eastern time.
- FlightRadar24 counted more than 4,700 cancellations and 10,000 delays on Friday.
- At least 827 flights had been diverted by 7:05 p.m. Eastern time, according to Cirium.
- The shutdown stranded NBA, NHL, and college football teams, while NFL teams assessed whether they could travel to their games.
- The Big 12 conference said it was evaluating possible changes to Saturday's schedule.
- Airlines said they were gradually resuming flights and warned that disruptions could continue as aircraft and crews returned to position.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he expected operations to return to normal before the Thanksgiving travel rush.
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