{"id":4452,"date":"2026-11-15T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2026-11-15T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T19:03:52","slug":"expect-more-flight-cancellations-us-transport-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"Expect more flight cancellations, US transport chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sought to assure Americans on Saturday it remains \u201csafe to fly\u201d after an hours-long ground stop, but warned of more flight cancellations as airlines grapple with thousands of stranded passengers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 flights were impacted by Friday\u2019s rare nationwide flight stoppage, and the effects were rippling across the industry, with more than 3,800 US flights already cancelled Saturday and another 2,100 delayed, according to tracking website FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperations are slowly returning to normal this morning. Planes are pushing back, taxiing, and taking off, and it is safe to fly,\u201d Duffy said on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will continue to see some delays and cancellations as carriers reschedule flights and reposition aircraft\/crews where they are needed most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duffy, an appointee of US President Donald Trump, thanked air traffic controllers, pilots and flight crews for their dedication and hard work during the crisis, and added that \u201cour top priority right now is making sure travellers get home safely to their families as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full sm:w-1\/2  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/english.aaj.tv\/news\/330480691\/us-air-travel-resumption-will-take-time-after-hours-long-stop\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--newskitlink  \">    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/english.aaj.tv\/news\/card\/330480691\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The ground stop not only plunged US air travel into chaos, but it has raised serious concerns about the country\u2019s ageing infrastructure and how it could be particularly susceptible to cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday dismissed speculation about a coordinated cyber assault on the United States, or any link to the Microsoft outage that affected services worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>But as US lawmakers and others on Saturday called for investigations into what caused the massive disruption and whether the country is adequately secure from cyber criminality, the government urged patience from travellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate your continued patience as operations return to normal,\u201d the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As of mid-morning Saturday, Trump, often quick to comment on social media on issues of such magnitude, has made no public statement about the ground stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sought to assure Americans on Saturday it remains \u201csafe to fly\u201d after an hours-long ground stop, but warned of more flight cancellations as airlines grapple with thousands of stranded passengers. More than 20,000 flights were impacted by Friday\u2019s rare nationwide flight stoppage, and the effects were rippling across the industry, with more than 3,800 US flights already cancelled Saturday and another 2,100 delayed, according to tracking website FlightAware. \u201cOperations are slowly returning to normal this morning. Planes are pushing back, taxiing, and taking off, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}