Flights snarled at Dallas airports over equipment issues, FAA says
Dallas – Hundreds of flights inside and outside Dallas were delayed or canceled on Friday while telecommunications equipment problems disrupted one of the country’s busiest airports, said federal officials
The Federal Aviation Administration said that it slowed theft at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport due to a “problem of local telephone equipment”. The same problems also had an impact on Dallas’ love field, according to the agency, which said that the question did not concern FAA equipment.
The FAA expects delays to continue until Friday evening.
According to Flightaware, late Friday afternoon, nearly 700 flights inside and outside DFW airport were delayed while 200 were canceled. About 160 flights were delayed in the field in and out of love while a flight was canceled.
A Love Field spokesperson said they were “constant communication” with partners such as FAA while “working to manage the situation and minimize disturbances”. DFW Airport said on the social platform X that FAA managed delays in air traffic in the region.
Friday afternoon, the departures of Love Field was delayed by approximately 30 minutes of approximately 30 minutes, according to the FAA website. At DFW airport, a ground stopper was in place for American airlines and thefts on other airlines have been delayed by more than an hour.
All flights were arrested in both airports for more than an hour.
American Airlines said on X that the FAA had reported “a problem involving the telecommunications supplier for the air traffic control installation that oversees aerial space in the Dallas-Fort Worth area”.
The FAA said that the problems in Dallas were not linked to the aging equipment on which the air controllers are based or on the national shortage of controllers who both combined to disrupt flights at Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this year. The federal government is now trying to revise technology after the congress has approved $ 12.5 billion and hire thousands of additional controllers, but both efforts will likely take years.
