Computer glitch causes big flight delays at northeast US airports

The computer outage impacted flights to and from New York and Washington, D.C. She said and it is unclear when flights will return to normal.

The delays are residual from an FAA-issued ground stop, according to Kimberly Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

Flight delays were still plaguing much of the northeastern U.S. on Saturday, but interruptions were minimal in Atlanta, home to one of the world’s busiest airports — the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta global Airport.

The FAA completed installing the affected computer system in the last of the 20 air traffic control center for high-altitude earlier in the year.

The two hardest hit airports were Reagan Washington National Airport and Baltimore Washington worldwide Airport.

In Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Highfill did not appear to be affected too much by the delays on the East Coast, director Kelly Johnson said.

Delays began building at about 9.45pm on Saturday, according to FlightRadar24, a flight monitoring website.

Just after 4 p.m. ET, the FAA tweeted that an automation system that experienced problems was back in service.

Harry Ajrawat, of Potomac, Md., flew from Wyoming to Dallas on Saturday morning en route to Washington.

As of 3 p.m.at Southwest Florida worldwide Airport (RSW), there are a handful of delays and cancellations, but it is unknown if those are related to the stoppage.

A physician, Ajrawat said he missed a meeting Saturday and is supposed to see patients on Monday and have a “very important meeting with the president of the hospital”.

Lucky for Roehl and Wilcox, they had a friend who could take them in for the night; the airline wasn’t paying for hotel rooms because it wasn’t its mistake, Roehl said.