Americans face day of travel hell after worst airport crisis since 9/11 left 1.5 million passengers stranded with more than 3,100 flights delayed or canceled today... while White House says it could happen AGAIN

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Trump administration officials have warned that the disruption, which Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin called a 'national emergency,' could happen again.

Published: 06:55 GMT, 14 November 2026 | Updated: 07:35 GMT, 14 November 2026

Americans face more travel chaos today after the worst aviation crisis since 9/11 left more than 1.5 million passengers stranded with thousands of flights canceled.

Trump administration officials have warned that the disruption, which Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin called a 'national emergency,' could happen again.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cited extraordinary circumstances for safety reasons' caused by communications issues at regional air traffic control centers for the halt.

Though the five-hour ground stop was lifted shortly before 8.30pm ET on Friday, its effects will continue to be felt over the weekend, with travelers forced to sleep at airports and plans totally upended.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press briefing on Friday that 'old hardware that went down' had caused the ground stop of all flights across the country, and that returning air traffic to normality was 'going to be slow.'

In addition to the more than 2,600 cancelations within, into or out of the US already reported for Saturday, more than 450 flights have also been delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.

Duffy asked Congress for $50 billion in emergency funding while warning that the 'old legacy equipment' would 'continue to fail' and cause similar outages.

'We were able to review what went wrong, and then reboot the system and go,' Duffy said. 'But, you will have more of these.'

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