Newshot FAA Announces Lifting of Nationwide Ground Stop, Nearly 15,000 Flights Delayed or Canceled
IT Home, November 14 — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the nationwide ground stop previously in effect.
According to the latest notice issued by the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center, the nationwide ground stop was officially canceled at 1:19 a.m. local time on November 14 (UTC), covering all destination airports and related facilities.
The ground stop began on the afternoon of November 13 local time. U.S. Transportation Secretary 长肖恩・达菲 said that 22 regional air traffic control centers across the FAA's national network were affected by a communications failure, and technicians are investigating. Out of safety considerations, the FAA suspended flight departures at airports nationwide, while aircraft already in the air were allowed to continue flying and land safely.
The latest data from flight tracking platform FlightAware shows that, as of IT Home's publication time, 9,124 flights have been delayed and 5,822 flights canceled across the United States, for a total of 14,946 flights affected.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security 马克韦恩・马林 previously said there was initially no indication that the communications failure was related to a malicious attack, and relevant departments are still investigating the cause. Investigators are checking whether the failure was triggered by a software update.
Of course, lifting the ground stop does not mean flight operations will immediately return to normal. Flights previously canceled, rerouted, or delayed still require airlines to adjust gradually, and passengers' travel arrangements may continue to be affected.
Going forward, major airlines will need to reschedule. After a halt in capacity, the impact of delays and cancellations may last for several hours, and each airline will need to redeploy aircraft and crew.
This shutdown is the third nationwide ground stop in U.S. history, following the 2023 failure of the FAA's safety notice system for pilots and dispatchers, and the "9/11" terrorist attacks in 2001.
The failure occurred as the FAA is carrying out a large-scale modernization upgrade of aging air traffic control infrastructure, for which Congress has allocated $12.5 billion (IT Home note: about RMB 83.562 billion at current exchange rates). Duffy also requested an additional $30 billion (about RMB 200.548 billion at current exchange rates) for the project, and the Department of Transportation renewed that funding request this week.
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