Flights slowly resume after US aviation agency lifts nationwide ground stop

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy says the airspace is now open and the problem has been identifiedChaos at US airports as stoppage grinds travel plans to a haltWhat to know about the rare nationwide ground stop issued by the FAAFlights in the US have slowly started resuming after being grounded for several hours on Friday due to a major communications outage, but authorities have warned that a return to normal operations will take time.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop about four hours after it was declared on Friday afternoon, delaying or canceling more than 11,000 US flights, according to aviation tracker FlightAware, and throwing airports into sudden chaos. Continue reading...