More than 100 flights were delayed on Monday at San Antonio International Airport after the air conditioning system in the airport\u2019s air traffic control center malfunctioned.<\/p>\n
Operations at the airport are \u201creturning to normal\u201d\u00a0 after the Federal Aviation Administration \u201ctemporarily slowed departures\u201d at the airport due to weather and rising temperatures inside the air traffic control tower, FAA spokesperson Donnell Evans said\u00a0Monday. Technicians have fixed the air conditioning, he said.<\/p>\n
The air conditioning was repaired as of 5 p.m., airport spokesperson Tonya Hope said.<\/p>\n
There have been 111 delays at the airport on Monday, according to flight\u00a0tracking website\u00a0FlightAware. It\u2019s unclear how many of the delays were due to the malfunction.<\/p>\n
By comparison, the airport experienced 78 delays on Friday, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n
Of the delays on Monday, 55 were departures \u2013 including nine to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, five to Dallas Love Field Airport, five to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and four to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, according to FlightAware. Fifty-six of the delayed flights were incoming.<\/p>\n
The \u201cHVAC situation\u201d at the airport also led to flight cancellations, Hope said. Over the past day, two flights have been cancelled at the airport, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a busy day at San Antonio International Airport,\u201d Hope said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 flights were delayed on Monday at San Antonio International Airport after the air conditioning system…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-371898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}