US air travel should recover from ground stop by end of Sunday, FAA says

US air travel should be fully recovered from the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years by the end of Sunday, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Saturday. Bedford said the flights "will still have delays and cancellations" on Saturday but promised that the "worst is behind us." His comments came as airlines across the US worked to recover from a ground stoppage that lasted four hours, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. New technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused "intermittent" communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours, Trump administration officials said. Planes were taking flight and landing Saturday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said. But the effects could be felt for days. Officials say the system will likely return to normal in time to handle the Thanksgiving travel rush. The nationwide stop was the first since January 2023, when another