Nationwide FAA outage impacts Hilton Head, Savannah airports. Was your flight delayed?
More than 1,000 flights were canceled and upwards of 6,000 were delayed Wednesday morning following a nationwide technological outage at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), causing all major U.S. airlines to halt operations.
According to The New York Times, the Tuesday outage “left pilots, airlines and airports without crucial safety information.” The FAA lifted its ground stop order shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, giving airlines the green light to resume operations.
But by then, thousands of flights had been canceled or delayed, including in the Lowcountry. Here’s a list of all delays and cancellations at Savannah and Hilton Head airports.
2 cancellations and 8 delays at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
AA1614 to Charlotte, NC (10:23 a.m.): Canceled
AA5200 to Washington, DC (10:53 a.m.): Delayed until 1:58 p.m.
AA5413 to Charlotte, NC (12:49 p.m.): Delayed until 1:02 p.m.
DL5139 to New York, NY (12:51 p.m.): Delayed until 2:46 p.m.
UA1330 to Newark, NJ (11:24 a.m.): Delayed until 1:20 p.m.
WN2108 to Dallas, TX (3:25 p.m.): Delayed until 5:45 p.m.
WN2329 to Baltimore, MD (10:30 a.m.): Delayed until 1:45 p.m.
WN2518 to Nashville, TN (2:10 p.m.): Canceled
WN2549 to Chicago, IL (4:30 p.m.): Delayed until 7:12 p.m.
WN8917 to Dallas, TX (2:55 p.m.): Delayed until 3:35 p.m.
1 cancellation at Hilton Head Island Airport
AA3395 to Charlotte, NC (2:00 p.m.): Canceled
“Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews,” the FAA wrote on Twitter. “The ground stop has been lifted. We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem.”
The agency previously said it was pausing U.S. departures until 9 a.m. eastern “to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information.”
For more information, visit sites for Savannah/Hilton Head and Hilton Head International airports.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published January 11, 2023 at 11:43 AM.
