FAA lifts nationwide ground stop, 4 hours after air traffic chaos began

The hourslong nationwide FAA ground stop has officially been lifted, the agency announced shortly after 8:30 ET.The stop lasted a total of roughly four hours, easily surpassing the 2023 outage of 90 minutes.It’s still unclear if and when air travel will resume to normal, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying during a White House press conference Friday evening that it will take “some time.”“We’ve opened up the airspace.Now does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? It’s going to be slow, right?” Duffy said.

“So if you’re watching, you’re at an airport; check with your airline.”“We’re going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight, if we have the capacity with crews to move those flights ….If not, we’re going to start tomorrow morning with our airline partners, moving those aircraft, but it’s going to take us some time to unwind what’s happened this afternoon.”This is a developing story.

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