A major ground stop, yesterday, and for many the first thought was here we go again, 911. Over 15,000 flights affected, delayed, canceled, forced to land mid flight and so on. Millions of passengers affected.

One couple was to fly from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale to catch a two week Caribbean cruise scheduled to leave at 4 o’clock on Saturday. Don’t know if they made it or not. That is just one of thousands of stories of plans being upended.

The Trump administration is blaming this on old technology very old technology being overwhelmed. Communications disruptions caused the ground stops.

Sooner or later as Trump does with everything, the Biden administration will be blamed. Let us not forget that Trump fired 400 FAA officials during his second term.

Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, had the following to say about the situation,

“Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and … they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down.”

Duffy then proceeded to demand $50 billion from Congress to update the system. The thing is here the Republicans have had a Republican president and control of both the house and the Senate for the last two years. Now all of a sudden this is a priority when they knew all along what could happen.

My sympathies to the millions of passengers who were affected by this shutdown.

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