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The Latest Breaking News on Near-misses at US airports prompts calls for ‘urgent action’

Near-misses at US airports prompts calls for ‘urgent action’

The National Transportation Safety Board has opened seven investigations into near-miss incidents since January

The Independent UK

United Airlines lifts nationwide ground stop caused by ‘equipment issue’

FAA said United was ‘unable to contact their dispatch through normal means’

The Independent UK

Disruption to flights could last days after air-traffic control failure

Airline passengers could face severe disruption for the rest of this week after an air-traffic control system failure caused hundreds of flights to and from the UK to be cancelled on one of the busiest days of the year.

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Airport schedules remain 'disrupted' amid travel chaos

Travel disruption could last for days after flights were cancelled leaving thousands of passengers stranded following an air traffic control…

The National (Scotland)

Repatriation flights to take place across the week as travel chaos continues

London airports have warned of ongoing cancellations to flights after the first national air traffic control technical glitch ‘in almost a decade’

Evening Standard

Travel disruption could last days as thousands stranded by cancelled flights

Passengers were urged by airlines to check before they leave for the airport as their flight times may have changed following the technical fault.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of flights estimated to have been cancelled after fault

A total of 232 flights departing UK airports have been cancelled and 271 arriving flights, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.

The Independent UK

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Air traffic control delays: What to do if your UK flight has been delayed today

“Be prepared for delays and disruption,” says Simon Calder, The Independent’s Travel Correspondent

The Independent UK

Widespread delays after UK airspace hit by ‘network-wide failure’

National Air Traffic Services says the problem has been ‘remedied’ but there is still a huge backlog of flights

Evening Standard

Pete Buttigieg blames severe weather for Fourth of July travel chaos

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the ‘FAA frankly failed us this weekend’

The Independent UK

Airline delays and cancellations are bad. Ahead of the holiday weekend, they’re getting worse

In a worrisome sign for the long Fourth of July weekend, bad weather on the East Coast and airline and air traffic control staffing shortages cause major flight delays.

Chicago Sun-Times

Secretary Buttigieg warns of flight delays from July 1 due to 5G

Starting July 1, airplanes that have not been retrofitted to withstand interference from 5G signals may not be allowed to land in low visibility.

Fortune

Southwest Airlines flights grounded all across USA leaving livid passengers stuck

Passengers were grounded all across America today, April 18, after a firewall failure.

Daily Record

Livid Southwest Airlines passengers 'told stranded planes glitch may take 6 hours to fix'

Southwest Airline passengers have been grounded across the US after a computer glitch left thousands stranded on runaways with many face lengthy waits

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Reuters

U.S. FAA adopts new safeguards after computer outage halted flights

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers Monday it had made a series of changes to prevent a repeat of a key computer system outage that forced a nationwide Jan. 11 ground stop disrupting more than 11,000 flights.

The Independent UK

Users of pilot-alert system that failed report new delays

A system that sends alerts to pilots, and broke down earlier this month, is causing delays for some users again

WEKU

FAA contractors deleted files — and inadvertently grounded thousands of flights

The agency's preliminary review determined it was unintentional as the contractors worked "to correct synchronization" between databases.

Axios

FAA: Outage caused by contract workers unintentionally deleting files

The outage caused thousands of delays and cancellations, costing airlines billions of dollars.

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WEKU

Aviation leaders call for more funds for the FAA after this week's system failure

This week's NOTAM system failure, which caused thousands of flight delays and cancelations, has airline industry leaders calling for more stable funding to upgrade antiquated FAA systems.

The Independent UK

Minimal airline delays, cancellations a day after US outage

Delays and cancellations among flights across the United States were minimal on Thursday, a day after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed, grounding some planes for hours

Axios

Why air travel has been a huge mess lately

There's plenty of blame to go around for the recent spate of delays and cancellations.

Fortune

FAA's ground stop proves business needs a functioning government to thrive

Gridlock and partisan stalemate are not good for business or the economy.

WEKU

Here's the latest on the NOTAM outage that caused flight delays and cancellations

The Federal Aviation Administration said late Wednesday that early work traced the blackout to a "damaged database file."

Reuters

FAA links computer outage to procedural error as U.S. flights return to normal

A computer outage that grounded flights nationally on Wednesday and disrupted more than 11,000 flights was caused by a procedural error related to a data file, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday as U.S. airline operations returned to normal.

The Independent UK

Corrupted file blamed for taking down US flight system and causing 10,000 plane delays or cancellations

More than 10,000 flights delayed in first national grounding of flights in about two decades

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