The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Federal Aviation Authority lifted an order grounding flights across the United States around 6 a.m. Wednesday after a system failure caused thousands of delays at airports nationwide, including at airports in Southern California.
More than 7,000 across multiple carriers were delayed within, into, or out of the country, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyberattack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate.
Several airports reported delays to their schedules in Southern California, though spokespeople for the various airports said early Wednesday they may have been spared the brunt of the impacts because their airports have limited activity or were shut down when the system failure occurred.
Flights prepare to take off at LAX after an FAA computer problem grounded all flights in the United States overnight.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
At Los Angeles International Airport, roughly 12% of the schedule was impacted by delays as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Heath Montgomery, an airport spokesperson. Seven flights were canceled, and 167 inbound and outbound flights were running delays between 15 minutes to about two hours or more.
“It is that very first batch of flights that is impacted,” Montgomery said, adding that the timing was important. The airport has limited activity between midnight and 5 a.m., he said.
“Right now, it looks pretty good overall,” Montgomery said. But he added “it will be up and down all day long, we know there will be impacts throughout the day.”
Ontario International Airport reported nine departures and 12 arrivals that have delays between 30 to 40 minutes, Steve Lambert, spokesperson for Ontario airport, said. Southwest, Alaska, United and Hawaiian airlines were among those experiencing disruptions, he said.
“We don’t have flights in the early, early morning period, so we were probably not impacted quite as much,” Lambert said.
Curfews at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport also spared the facilities from the brunt of the failure, according to spokespeople for the airports.
Still, the locations felt the disruptions.
At Long Beach Airport, two outbound flights were canceled, likely because of the failure, said Kate Kuykendall, an airport spokesperson, adding there may be additional delays.
John Wayne Airport also reported minimal disruptions early Wednesday. The first outbound flight departs at 7 a.m., AnnaSophia Servin, an airport spokesperson, said.
“This morning all flights originating [from John Wayne] can depart as scheduled,” Servin said. There were “several delays” regarding arrivals, but the number was likely to fluctuate throughout the day, Servin said.
Hollywood Burbank Airport had eight cancellations and six delayed arrivals as of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Christensen in a text.
The FAA had ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning but lifted that order just before 6 a.m. after several hours.
The groundings affected almost all aircraft, including shipping and passenger flights. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but on social media, travelers reported delayed or grounded flights at airports around the country, including LAX.
The chaos is expected to grow as backups compound. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. Wednesday, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Airports in Chicago, L.A., New York and Atlanta were seeing between 30% and 40% of flights delayed.
“We are going to see the ripple effects from that, this morning’s delays through the system during the day,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview on CNN. “Now we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place. Why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disruptive this time.”
Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the terror attacks of September 2001.
“Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically,” said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.
The FAA said it was continuing to look into the cause of the initial problem.
Flights for the U.S. military’s Air Mobility Command were not affected.
Biden said Wednesday morning that he was briefed by Buttigieg.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out.”
Buttigieg said on CNN that the order to ground all departing flights was done out of an abundance of caution but that mass disruptions to U.S. air travel were not acceptable.
“We need to design a system that does not have this kind of vulnerability,” Buttigieg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
