Overview
- The FAA confirmed Orlando International had a period Thursday night with no certified controllers, triggering a ground delay program that temporarily halted arriving flights.
- Delays at MCO averaged about 2 hours and 40 minutes, with the longest near 12 hours, and several flights were canceled.
- Operations at Orlando improved Friday, though disruptions lingered, with 32 delays and 18 cancellations reported so far.
- Fresh FAA advisories Friday cited insufficient personnel at Philadelphia TRACON Area C and at the Nashville and Austin towers, leading to ground delays at affected airports.
- Flight-tracking data showed widespread delays and hundreds of cancellations nationwide, as industry groups and union leaders joined Vice President J.D. Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in urging Congress to pass a clean funding bill.