flight delays

flight delays

Federal Aviation Administration computer problems causing delays and canceled flights, American airport on Thursday, but the mid morning FAA map showed only slow the first city in the airports in New York and Washington.

This is the second time in 15 months, an error occurs in a system that collects flight plans, causing delays.

Some airports also shows a significant departure delays, marked orange: Philadelphia, La Guardia in New York and Newark, NJ on the Atlantic side, the FAA cited the weather map (ceiling of low clouds) as one of the main reasons for the delay.

O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Atlanta and Charlotte, NC, marked in yellow for the more moderate delays. About 30 airports appear as green, with a delay of more than 15 minutes.

In August 2008, a software malfunction delay hundreds of flights across the country. This episode was the northeastern most affected by delays because of an error in Hampton, Ga., facility that flight plans for the eastern half of the process the U.S.