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LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. flights were grounded or delayed on Wednesday as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage, with passengers told to check with airlines for updates.
Here’s what we know so far:
* The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until at least 1430 GMT, according to CBS News.
* A total of 2,512 flights were delayed within, into or out of the United States as of 1254 GMT, flight tracking website FlightAware showed, without citing reasons.
* Another 193 within, into or out of the country were cancelled.
A total of 21,464 flights are scheduled to depart airports in the United States on Wednesday with a carrying capacity of nearly 2.9 million passengers, data from Cirium shows.
American Airlines (NASDAQ:) has the most departures from U.S. airports with 4,819 flights scheduled, followed by Delta Air Lines (NYSE:) and Southwest Airlines (NYSE:), the Cirium data showed.
INTERNATIONAL:
FRANCE:
The operator of Paris’ international airports – Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly – said it expects delays to flights.
AIRLINES:
Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways, owned by IAG (LON:), continue to operate flights to and from the United States as normal for now.
The French airline said it was monitoring the situation.
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