# US flights face days of disruption after four-hour FAA grounding

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/airport-chaos-continues-after-us-ground-stop-lifted-as-it-happened/
- Published: 2026-11-14T05:55:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-14T06:32:21+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/nov/13/us-flight-outage-live-updates-faa-lifts-nationwide-ground-stop-as-airport-chaos-continues
- Topics: Americas, Business, Culture, Travel, World

## Key points

- A communications failure triggered a four-hour US flight ground stop.
- More than 6,600 flights were cancelled and 8,600 delayed.
- Officials warned airline schedules could take days to recover.

## Summary

A communications failure at US air traffic control centres prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ground flights nationwide on Friday, causing widespread disruption. The stop was lifted later that evening, but officials warned that services would recover gradually and the disruption could continue for days.

The four-hour shutdown was the longest such grounding since the 11 September 2001 attacks. FlightRadar24 reported more than 6,600 cancellations and 8,600 delays, with a further 1,500 flights already cancelled for Sunday. Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said overloaded routers in an ageing air traffic control system caused inconsistent data, and called for $50bn to modernise it.

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