# Flight Delays and Cancellations Persist as System Recovers From Ground Stop

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/flight-delays-and-cancellations-persist-as-system-recovers-from-ground-stop/
- Published: 2026-11-15T17:41:30+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T18:33:20+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Times (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/faa-groundstop-flights-status-delays-canceled.html
- Topics: Culture, Travel, World

## Key points

- US flights continued recovering after Friday’s nationwide ground stop.
- More than 17,000 flights had been cancelled since Friday.
- Officials traced the disruption to an overloaded router during an upgrade.

## Summary

Air travel across the United States continued to recover on Sunday after a communications failure forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground flights for more than four hours on Friday. The disruption left cancellations and delays across the country, highlighting vulnerabilities in an air traffic system facing ageing infrastructure and a shortage of controllers.

Cirium reported that nearly 90 per cent of flights on Sunday morning departed within 14 minutes of schedule, but more than 1,300 flights had already been cancelled. Since Friday, more than 17,000 flights had been cancelled and nearly 40 per cent of 74,696 scheduled flights delayed. The failure followed an upgrade involving copper wires being replaced with fibre-optic cables; officials said a router was overloaded with data requests. They expected schedules to return to normal by late Sunday or Monday morning, and said there was no indication of a foreign cyberattack.

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