US air travel slowly recovers from nationwide flight ground stop as chaos continues
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Summary
A four-hour nationwide FAA ground stop caused thousands of U.S. flight cancellations and delays. Flights resumed, but disruptions continued as airlines worked to rebook passengers and reposition aircraft and crews.Key Facts
- More than 8,000 flights were canceled on Friday, and more than 3,000 additional flights within, into, or out of the U.S. had been canceled by Saturday morning.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said an overloaded air traffic communications system produced inconsistent data, prompting officials to shut it down.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said officials had no indication that a malicious attack caused the communications failure.
- The FAA lifted the ground stop, but airports in Boston, Washington, New York, and Miami reported continuing disruptions.
- The Southeastern Conference moved Mississippi’s game against Oklahoma to Sunday, and a men’s college basketball game between UNC Greensboro and Cornell was postponed.
- The UK Civil Aviation Authority advised passengers traveling between the UK and U.S. to check with their airlines before going to the airport.
- Administration officials urged Congress to fund a new air traffic control system.
- The FAA had issued two other nationwide ground stops this century: after the September 11, 2001 attacks and during a pilot notification system outage in January 2023.
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