{"id":352632,"date":"2026-09-21T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:56:15","slug":"new-yorks-jfk-boston-and-other-us-airports-hit-by-delays-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352632\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s JFK, Boston and other US airports hit by delays after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic communication problem grounds dozens of flights across northeastern USpublished at 18:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>18:41 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scores of flights have been disrupted at airports in the northeastern US due to telecommunication issues affecting air traffic control, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ground stops were issued on Monday afternoon for major airports in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Boston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue is related to frequencies at the Philadelphia air traffic control, which handles traffic for airports in the region, US media reports. It&#8217;s unclear when the ground stops will lift, and the BBC has approached the FAA for a statement on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An FAA spokesperson told the BBC&#8217;s US partner CBS that the problem affected the Terminal Radar Approach Control system, which is used to guide planes during takeoff and landing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air traffic communication problem grounds dozens of flights across northeastern USpublished at 18:41 BST 18:41 BSTBreaking Scores of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-352632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}