Nationwide ground stop
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Press conference with Duffy (Transportation) and Mullin (DHS). Mullin said that the FAA was patching some new stuff in to the existing system and it overwhelmed the old portions of the system. Not sure what he's talking about, but that's what he said.
The President (who is a builder - Mullin's comment) says they need $50 billion to build a completely new system because this patching stuff in doesn't work.
Oy.
edit: CNN on what was actually said:
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Congress to give “emergency funding” and approve $50 billion dollars to revamp the air traffic control system, increasing a previous ask for funding of more than $30 billion.
“I’ve asked, the president’s asked for $30 billion. I want $50 billion,” Duffy said while briefing the press at the White House tonight.
“What’s more important than having an air traffic control system that actually works?” Duffy continued. “And so the president said, ‘You know what? Let’s finish this job. New hardware, new software, new telecommunication.’”
Duffy and the Department of Transportation announced a plan in 2025 to build a new air traffic control system by 2028 that would cost roughly $31.5 billion. More than $12 billion of that funding was secured through the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“We are building in that 12 and a half billion dollars. That portion of the bill will be done by the time President Trump leaves office. We are moving at a speed that has never been seen before with regard to the FAA,” Duffy said. “But that’s a partial funding.”
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said old air traffic control technology and routers overloaded with data were to blame for the nationwide ground stop today.
“What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system,” Duffy said at a news conference tonight. “The president, for the last year, has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system.”
“Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and… they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down,” he added.
Duffy said some routers had been replaced during his tenure, but the old hardware went down.
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Wow. My sister is scheduled to fly tonight from Seattle to JFK and it looks like the flight is going to happen.
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Our kids were in the air on the way home from PHX when I heard about this. They landed 30 minutes later. Whew!
I can see this could cause a cascading pile of problems. If planes can’t leave, it’s hard to have more landing at those airports.
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Not entirely. That’s also what you get when you keep electing governments that doesn’t fund infrastructure development and maintenance adequately.
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@wtg What a coincidence that "SMART" was expanded to all control centers just a few days ago. Uh-huh.
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