Airports, passengers recover from FAA meltdown as chaotic holiday travel season looms

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Set us as preferred With the busiest travel days of the year just ahead, U.S.airports and federal officials today scrambled to restore flights for tens of thousands of travelers grounded by Friday’s historic suspension of air traffic.

“We are back at full operations,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a Washington D.C.news conference Saturday morning.

However, he said, “Games may not happen on time today.People may not get to a wedding.

They may not get to a birthday party.”At LAX at 2:20 p.m., travel website FlightAware reported 85 canceled departures and 110 canceled arrivals, along with 189 delayed departures and 196 delayed arrivals.At Hollywood Burbank Airport, the figures were 12 canceled departures, 11 canceled arrivals, 22 delayed departures and 22 delayed arrivals.“It’s just going to take some time for things to get back to normal.

I don’t have an estimate on that,” said an LAX spokesperson Saturday morning.“The only thing we’re able to recommend is that people check with their airlines before they travel.”John DiScala, who runs the travel advice website JohnnyJet.com and has a pre-Thanksgiving flight from LAX coming up on Wednesday, said he plans to follow his usual pre-flight routine, which includes having the airline’s app on his phone, having the airline’s number on his phone (in case he needs to rebook in a hurry), checking his seat assignment, showing up at the airport well ahead of departure and consulting flighty.com, which tracks airlines, airports and plane locations.

Politics For more than four hours, a ground stop of virtually all aircraft in the United States brought unprecedented chaos and delays that are expected to last days.Here is what we know about what went wrong.That said, in the absence of another FAA hiccup, “I don’t think there are going to be any ...