FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the agency is investigating an automation problem at an air traffic center in Leesburg, Virginia.
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BWI Marshall Airport officials confirmed via Twitter that there is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) technical issue – a computer outage – that is affecting airline flights throughout the region. Flights into and out of New York- and Washington-area airports were being grounded with delays stretching to 2 hours, 45 minutes in some cases.
“We are working on rerouting aircrafts that were planned”, Delta Air Lines spokesman Morgan Durrant said. “We have to make last-minute adjustments to flight plans”.
The tie-up at the major East Coast hub airports is triggering further delays across the country.
Operations right now at Washington National Airport and Dulles Airport are normal. We are directing high altitude traffic around the affected airspace.
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There were 134 flights canceled at airports in Baltimore and Washington as of 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, according to flightaware.com, which monitors global air traffic.
