U.S. air travel should recover from ground stop by end of November 15, FAA says

Washington U.S. air travel should be fully recovered from the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years by the end of Sunday, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said on Saturday (November 14, 2026).

Mr. Bedford said the flights “will still have delays and cancellations” on Saturday (November 14) but promised that the “worst is behind us.” His comments came as airlines across the U.S.

worked to recover from a ground stoppage that lasted four hours, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. New technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours, Trump administration officials said.