The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States has lifted this Saturday the order that suspended all flights in the country after four hours of paralysis that have caused thousands of delays and cancellations alleging “telecommunications problems.”
“Right now we have opened the airspace. We have our centers and our air traffic control towers operational,” said the US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, during a press conference at the White House.
Duffy has attributed the nationwide flight suspension to “outdated” air traffic control infrastructure and has directly urged Congress to approve increased funding to modernize the system.
Likewise, the Secretary of Transportation has explained that older telecommunications routers suffered from data overload, which generated technical inconsistencies that led the FAA to suspend takeoffs as a precaution.
The airline crisis in the US has caused four flight cancellations in Spain
The air crisis this Friday in the United States, where all takeoffs were suspended for four hours, has caused four cancellations of flights to or from Spain, in addition to some delays.
As Aena sources have informed EFE, air traffic is returning to normal, although there are some delays at Spanish airports.
An interruption in communications was, according to the American authorities, the cause of the four-hour stoppage of departures at US airports, which caused two flight cancellations in Spain at the Madrid-Barajas airport and another two at Barcelona airport.
Specifically, Iberia had to cancel a Chicago-Madrid flight due to the difficulties of providing ground service at that airport, according to company sources.
The North American airline Delta’s connection between Madrid and Atlanta was also cancelled.
The also North American United Airlines canceled a Chicago-Barclona flight, which was due to land around 12:00 noon today, and its return, departing from the Catalan capital around 2:00 p.m.
