More than 100 flights were canceled or delayed at Chicago’s airports Saturday as disruptions continued following Friday’s nationwide ground stop that crippled air travel across the country.
According to FlightAware.com’s Misery Map of delays and cancellations, 68 flights were delayed at O’Hare Airport between 6 and 10 a.m. in addition to 82 separate canceled flights.
As of 9:16 a.m., overall delays at O’Hare averaged 30 minutes. Arrivals were delayed an average of 34 minutes, while departures were running about 28 minutes behind.
The situation fared better at Midway Airport, where 12 flights were delayed, and an additional 16 cancellations were reported. Arrivals, departures and overall delays all averaged less than 15 minutes.
Airlines worked to recover from the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years that canceled more than 2,500 flights Saturday, spread ripple effects around the world and stranded passengers.
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New technology being added to the nation’s air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours, Trump administration officials said.
Airports were slowly returning to normal, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said, with planes taking flight and landing. But the effects could be felt for days, with officials saying the system would likely return to normal in time to handle the Thanksgiving travel rush.
The nationwide stop was the first since January 2023, when another key Federal Aviation Administration computer system that sends notices to pilots malfunctioned, and the second since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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