Grounded planes at U.S. airports may lead to delays, cancellations for Canadian flights

The grounding of flights at all U.S. airports is beginning to have international impacts. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop Friday afternoon (Nov. 13), citing telecommunications issues. The agency said in a post to X that a temporary telecommunications outage has led to the ground stop “out of an abundance of caution.” The post adds that every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis. The post did not say when the outage could be resolved or when the ground stop could be lifted. An update had not been provided by 5:36 p.m. Pacific Time. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy posted to social media at 2:16 p.m. Pacific Time that the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following the “communication issue” that is impacting all air route traffic control centres. He added that Federal Aviation Administration technicians are investigating the issue.

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