The consequences of the suspension of all take-offs for several hours on Friday in the United States continue today with more cancellations and flight delays, warned the US Secretary of Transport.
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14/11/2026
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Athe consequences of the suspension of all take-offs for several hours on Friday in the United States continue today with more cancellations and flight delays, warned the U.S. Transport Secretary.
“Operations are gradually returning to normal this morning,” but there will continue to be “delays and cancellations, as airlines are reprogramming flights and relocate aircraft and crews where they are most needed,” Sean Duffy wrote on social network X.
Air space in the United States was reopened today at 01:15 in Lisbon, after several hours of suspension of virtually all takeoffs, a stoppage that resulted in the cancellation of 6,000 flights worldwide, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers.
The suspension decreed on Friday night, two weeks from Thanksgiving holiday, a period marked by a great flow of travel, plunged the country's airports into chaos and uncertainty for hours.
Airlines are now transporting hundreds of thousands of affected passengers. More than 800 aircraft were diverted to airports that were not in the original flight plan.
As for the reason that led to the cancellation of thousands of flights, the Transport Secretary attributed the problem to “old equipment” in the 1980s, claiming that “they were burdened with data and failed,” Duffy explained.