FAA’s main pilot warning system NOTAM faces outage, US flights may face delays

“There is presently nary interaction to the National Airspace System due to the fact that a backup strategy is successful place. The FAA has acceptable up a hotline to pass with aviation stakeholders and volition nonstop notices each 30 minutes with updates connected the system’s status,” Duffy said.

The proscription caput further added that passengers should cheque with their respective formation operators astir the presumption of their planes connected Sunday, adding “there whitethorn beryllium immoderate residual delays time morning.”

Duffy informed that “FAA activated its contingency strategy to supplement and enactment preflight briefings and proceed formation operations…We are investigating the basal origin and we volition supply updates.”

The NOTAM strategy is critical arsenic it provides information notices to pilots, formation crews and different users of US airspace.

However, Reuters quoted a Southwest Airlines spokesperson who said that determination was nary hold successful their flights connected Saturday and “and we person radical and processes successful spot if the concern continues into tomorrow.”

Early connected Sunday, Delta Airlines and United Airlines said that their flights were not experiencing immoderate problems. “All our operations proceed arsenic mean close now. We person up to day NOTAM info done backup procedures,” a Delta Airlines spokesperson said arsenic per Reuters.

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