US flight chaos: Ground stop ends, but will your flight take off? Trump aide explains

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the nationwide ground stop that halted departures across the United States after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control operations on Friday. However, passengers may still face delays and cancellations as airlines work to bring their aircraft and crew back into position.US transportation secretary Sean Duffy said the problem had been identified and that air traffic control centres and Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities were operational again.The FAA reopened US airspace at 8.15 pm Eastern Time, allowing flights to resume.But Duffy cautioned that lifting the ground stop did not mean all flights would immediately take off. The recovery would depend on whether airlines had pilots and flight attendants available to operate their scheduled services."Does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? It's going to be slow," Duffy said, advising passengers at airports to check directly with their airlines."We're going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight if we have the capacity with crews to move those flights. If not, we're going to start tomorrow morning with our airline partners, moving those aircraft. But it's going to take us some time to unwind what's happened this afternoon," he added.What caused the nationwide ground stop?Explaining the sequence of events, Duffy said instability in radar and communications…