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US flight outage live updates: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop as airport chaos continues in US and beyond

Published by The Guardian Business · United Kingdom 24 min ago
US flight outage live updates: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop as airport chaos continues in US and beyond
The Guardian Business

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Sean Duffy, Trump’s transportation secretary, acknowledges tech failure led federal aviation officials to shut down system and ground flights, though details are scarceUS aviation…

All US-bound departures from European airports are suspended until 5am UTC on Saturday, according to a notice published by the European traffic control agency, Eurocontrol.

Forty-two European countries are members of Eurocontrol, including the 27 EU countries, the UK, Turkey and Israel.

The notice, issued by Network Manager Operations Centre Brussels at 10pm UTC, has been made on request of the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Looking in the opposite direction, however, several planes bound for Europe – including Dublin, Copenhagen, London, Milan, Paris and Rome – were allowed to depart from airports in Boston, New York and Washington in the past two hours.

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