US Airports See Air Traffic Moving Gradually Back to Normal

Airlines across the United States are working to recover after a ground stop led to the cancellation of more than 2,500 flights on Saturday. Its effects extended worldwide and left millions of passengers stranded.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford said the flight schedule across the United States would return to normal by the end of Sunday. He added that airlines would continue to experience some delays and cancellations until then.

Passenger traffic at US airports was seen proceeding as usual despite some flight cancellations. This followed a night of congestion involving travellers stranded when air traffic was suspended.

US Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced the resumption of air traffic during a press conference on Friday. He said new technology added to the air traffic control system had strained ageing equipment and caused communications and radar outages, prompting a ground stop lasting more than four hours.

Duffy explained that a contractor had been replacing part of the network’s old copper wiring with new fibre-optic lines and that the work had somehow overloaded the network. He added that an investigation had been opened to determine whether the cause was contractor error or a fault in the routers.

Source: QNA

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