Flights grounded across US following major FAA system outage

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of flights have been grounded across the US after the Federal Aviation Administration’s IT system suffered a “major failure”. “We will provide frequent updates as we make progress.” The FAA describes NOTAM as as system which “indicate the real-time and abnormal status of the NAS impacting every user”. “With a system failure affecting NOTAMs, operations will be disrupted almost immediately and this will soon be felt elsewhere across the world, including for flights waiting to depart to the US.” On Twitter Mr Macheras predicted: “Flights will be unable to resume until resolved.” FlightAware data shows that at least 400 flights have been delayed into, out of or across the United States as of 5.31am ET, CNBC reports. “Coming up on the three hour mark of sitting on a grounded red eye flight from @flyLAXairport, with still no publicly available update from @FAANews… love it,” tweeted Taylor Brasher.