Las Vegas flight disruptions continue Sunday after ground stop

Flight disruptions are still abundant in Las Vegas two days after the Federal Aviation Administration orded a nationwide ground stop.

At Harry Reid International Airport, a total of 140 flight delays and 54 cancellations had occurred as of 9 a.m. Sunday morning, according to data from FlightAware. Southwest Airlines is experiencing the majority of flight disruptions Sunday with 102 delays and 26 cancellations, per FlightAware.

The Associated Press said just over 1,300 of the more than 26,000 flights scheduled nationwide for Sunday were canceled, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm.

On Saturday, there were over 300 delays and 200 cancellations in Las Vegas.

The FAA’s ground stop on Friday spanned from 12:36 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., according to the agency. It was the first since January 2023, when a key FAA computer system that sends notices to pilots malfunctioned, and the second since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The FAA described a radar site in Amarillo, Texas and a radio communications site in El Dorado, Arkansas, as potential sources of a system failure, which involved excess data flooding the air traffic control system that caused intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds, according to the Associated Press.

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