📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- Flights have started to resume in the US after a nationwide air strike, but thousands of passengers have been hit with delays and cancellati.
- According to the French news agency AFP, a nationwide ground stop that lasted several hours on Friday suspended flights across the United St.
- "The exhaustion, the frustration and the anxiety have all turned into chaos," said Lisa Beride, 48, as she waited for her flight at New York.
Flights have started to resume in the US after a nationwide air strike, but thousands of passengers have been hit with delays and cancellations. The Trump administration has attributed the crisis to a technical glitch that occurred while replacing old copper communication wires.
According to the French news agency AFP, a nationwide ground stop that lasted several hours on Friday suspended flights across the United States, causing chaos at airports and affecting millions of passengers. Some passengers were turned away from the planes moments before departure while the airline staff did not have full information about the situation.
"The exhaustion, the frustration and the anxiety have all turned into chaos," said Lisa Beride, 48, as she waited for her flight at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
According to Brian Bedford, head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 12,000 flights were canceled on Friday, while about 4,000 to 5,000 flights were expected to be canceled on Saturday. However, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights had been canceled by Saturday evening.
At a press conference in Washington, Bedford apologized to American travelers and said the system was expected to be fully back to normal by the end of Sunday.
