Abstract:
After the nationwide grounding of flights caused chaos in air travel, Bedford apologized to the American public on the 14th and said that "the worst period is over" and that national air transportation is expected to return to normal on the evening of the 15th.
FAA Administrator Brian Bedford said on the 14th that air transportation across the United States is expected to return to normal on the evening of the 15th.
According to US news on the 14th, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines canceled about 20% of their flights that day, and JetBlue Airways canceled about 40% of their flights.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that day that he was investigating whether the communication failure was caused by operator error. The failure occurred as FAA contractors were upgrading communications lines, replacing copper cables with fiber optics.
After the FAA issued a nationwide flight suspension order on the 13th due to a large-scale communication failure, airlines have canceled nearly 10,000 flights and delayed more than 7,000 flights.
The grounding lasted for nearly five hours and was the longest nationwide flight grounding since the "9·11" terrorist attacks in 2001.
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