Early morning travelers at San Francisco Bay Area airports were greeted with a rude surprise Wednesday -- monitors filled with flights delayed by a FAA computer outage.
The FAA ordered all U.S. flights to delay departures until 6 a.m. Pacific, though airlines said they were aware of the situation and had already begun grounding flights.
Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast, but were beginning to spread west. Inbound international flights are into Miami International Airport continued to land, but all departures have been delayed since 6:30 a.m., said airport spokesman Greg Chin."We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now," the FAA said."Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a tweet that he is in touch with the FAA and monitoring the situation. There is a potential for widespread disruption because of the outage. All aircraft are required to route through the system, including commercial and military flights.Irish carrier Aer Lingus said services to the U.S. continue, and Dublin Airport's website showed that its flights to Newark, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles were running on schedule.
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