{"id":170956,"date":"2025-09-21T02:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T02:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:44:06","slug":"faa-says-multiple-failures-in-technology-caused-dfw-love-field-equipment-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170956\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA says \u2018multiple failures\u2019 in technology caused DFW, Love Field equipment outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ground stop and equipment outage that led to the cancellation and delay of hundreds of flights at DFW International and Love Field airports Friday evening<\/a> was caused by \u201cmultiple failures\u201d of technology provided by a Dallas-based internet provider, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday\u2019s disruption was caused by multiple failures of the TDMI data telecommunications service provided by Frontier \u2014 a local telecommunications company,\u201d the FAA said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis then led to an outage impacting the FAA\u2019s Dallas TRACON facility.\u201d A TRACON facility is an FAA control center that provides services to aircraft as they approach and depart airports, according to air safety website Skybrary<\/a>. The centers manage air traffic within a 30 to 50 mile radius and up to an altitude of 10,000 feet, the website said. <\/p>\n

Operations at both DFW Airport<\/a> and Love Field<\/a> have returned to normal levels, according to the FAA, with the agency adding it is working with airlines on recovery plans for impacted flights. <\/p>\n

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Love Field is the home base of Southwest Airlines<\/a>, which operates 18 of the airport\u2019s 20 gates. Fort Worth-based American Airlines<\/a> operates its central hub out of DFW. <\/p>\n

Between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday, only nine American flights were able to depart DFW airport, David Seymour, the carrier\u2019s chief operating officer, said in a letter to staff on Saturday. Seymour said American usually departs around 100 flights per hour from DFW. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt no time during these system outages in the DFW metroplex was the safety of our aircraft, crew or customers compromised,\u201d he said. \u201cThe FAA\u2019s quick response to these outages ensured that positive operational control was always maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n

In total, more than 530 American flights were canceled Friday and another 160 on Saturday, according to Seymour. American is determining the financial impact of the outage, he said.<\/p>\n

As of 2 p.m. Saturday, DFW Airport had 251 delays and 155 cancellations, while Love Field had 46 delays and no cancellations, according to FlightAware data. <\/p>\n

However, Friday\u2019s outage hit fliers hard. There were 607 delays and 510 cancellations at DFW and 224 delays and one cancellation at Love Field, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n

FAA officials said that aerospace and defense company L3Harris, an FAA contractor, \u201cfailed to ensure that redundancies in the system functioned properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a clear example of the FAA\u2019s outdated infrastructure and underscores the urgent need to modernize our air traffic control systems,\u201d the statement said. \u201cIt also highlights the critical importance of clearing thousands of state and local permitting obstacles, which will delay modernization efforts by years. Moving from aging, analog systems to more resilient, digital technology, is critical to maintaining the reliability and resiliency of the national airspace system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s outage in Dallas mimicked similar air traffic control outages that occurred earlier this year near Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. In May, a 90-second technology outage at a Philadelphia air-traffic control facility took out radar and communications, according a Wall Street Journal report<\/a>. That outage came less than two weeks after a similar outage that affected air-traffic controllers at Newark in late April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Sean Duffy, the U.S. Transportation Secretary, released a plan to overhaul the country\u2019s air traffic control system<\/a>. His department said the FAA plans to replace infrastructure such as radar, software, hardware and telecommunications networks in order to match modern travel. <\/p>\n

He emphasized the plan in a social media post regarding the Dallas-area outage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is EXACTLY why @POTUS<\/a> and I are hard at work to build a brand new air traffic control system,\u201c Duffy said on X<\/a>. \u201dWe will make disruptions like these a thing of the past.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ground stop and equipment outage that led to the cancellation and delay of hundreds of flights at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4324,13816,28,49889,101516,19772,74,6145,795],"class_list":{"0":"post-170956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-american-airlines","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-dfw-airport","12":"tag-love-field","13":"tag-southwest-airlines","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-transportation","16":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}