The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the order grounding U.S. flights on Wednesday morning, CNBC reports. More than 1,200 U.S. flights were delayed after the FAA witnessed an outage of the system that sends messages to pilots.
In a tweet, the FAA confirmed that, "Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S."
Earlier on Wednesday morning, CNBC reported that Airlines for America, an industry group representing major U.S. carriers, said “This technology issue is causing significant operational delays across the National Airspace System.” The group represents Delta Air Lines Inc DAL, American Airlines Group Inc AAL, United Airlines Holdings Inc UAL, Southwest Airlines Co LUV.
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