US air travel schedule should recover by the end of Sunday, FAA says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Airlines canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Saturday as they worked to recover from a nationwide ground stop a day earlier that left passengers scrambling for seats and disrupted travel around the world. The U.S. air travel schedule should be back to normal by the end of Sunday, two days after what was the nation’s longest ground stop in 25 years, Bryan Bedford, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said. He said airlines “will still have delays and cancellations” Saturday but promised that the “worst is behind us.” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters Saturday that a contractor had been replacing a section of the system’s old copper wire with new fiber wire, and that work somehow caused the system overload, leading to Friday’s ground stop that lasted more than four hours. The work caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, according to Trump administration officials.

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