Sources Tell CNN Aviation Analyst: ‘Stay Tuned for the Big Airlines to Shut Down This Evening’

EXCERPT:

MUNTEAN: “I just got this from an airline source quote. Stay tuned for the big airlines to shut down this evening. It underscores the fact that the national airspace system is right now in a full on crisis meltdown mode. And the federal aviation administration is telling airlines that all of these problems with telecom and radio frequencies at air route traffic control centers, the 22 facilities that control high altitude flights at their cruising altitudes in route between point a and point b started with network routers earlier today, and we‘re hearing from an airline source that the FAA is telling airlines that this may have started at Chicago midway international airport. Still more to be confirmed there by the federal aviation administration. This is having a major impact. Here are the latest numbers from flightaware 10,000 flight delays in the United States. The number of cancellations has now topped 3652. Chicago o‘hare, Atlanta, hartsfield, Jackson, dfw, LaGuardia, Boston top the list of cancellations right now. This is going to have a huge impact if you are at an airport, be grateful that you are not in the air right now.”

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