FAA expects up to 5,000 flight cancellations today after ground stop

Airlines expect to restore full schedules by tomorrow night. Officials said they found no evidence that a cyberattack or AI played a role in yesterday’s outage.

Duffy acknowledged that the ground stop may cause delays in professional sporting events and force people to miss major life events.

"Games may not happen on time today. People may not get to a wedding. They may not get to a birthday party. They may not get home from a work trip," he said. "I want them to get home safely."

Multiple games in college football had to be moved, but every NFL game will play as scheduled. A handful of NBA teams changed their flights as a result of the ground stop.

"That’s not the most important thing, but we do want to move teams around the country so we can have playoffs happen," Duffy said.

Less than half of the 20,000 flights affected by yesterday's ground stop were able to eventually take off, officials said.

About 8,000 flights were eventually able to get moving after the order was lifted last night, but FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said 12,000 flights "were unable to recover." The latter number includes roughly 3,000 private flights and…

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