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The US has warned travellers that flight delays and cancellations are expected to continue today after a rare nationwide ground stop sparked chaos at airports across the country and impacted flights from Australia.
FAA chief Bryan Bedford said 12,000 flights were cancelled yesterday and between 4,000 and 5,000 flights are likely to be cancelled today, following Friday’s four-hour grounding of flights – which officials have blamed on faulty equipment.
“I do think the worst is behind us, but we still have a fair amount of recovery ahead of us,” FAA chief Bryan Bedford said.
“So we will still have delays and cancellations today, but that will set us up for a full recovery tomorrow.”
Addressing the cause of the incident at a press conference earlier today, Mr Duffy said maintenance work to upgrade an old copper wire to a high-speed fibre cable caused issues with plane and radar feeds.
“Either through contractor error or a faulty piece of equipment … it started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US has floated the possibility of Kyiv ceding land to Moscow in exchange for NATO membership.
“This was the first time this issue had been raised,” Mr Zelensky said.
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