| ▲ | jbredeche 7 hours ago |
| On a plane about to take off and obviously we didn’t. The captain is very confused and says he doesn’t know what this means. |
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| ▲ | smallerize 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6z9dwn12037t > Transport Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA "issued a nationwide ground stop for all US airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. |
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| ▲ | kevvok 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same at SJC. The captain basically said, “IDK what to do, so I’m just going to read the bulletin Alaska sent out” |
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| ▲ | kevvok 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Now we’ve been deplaned and they are going to return checked baggage to us | | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hate that for all involved. Was flying out of ATL when the Crowdstrike clusterfuck imploded Delta's antiquated crew scheduling backends. Not a fun night. Godspeed for everyone getting to where they need to be, somehow, or at least ending tonight with a roof over your heads. |
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| ▲ | condour75 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We were offered $1500 to get on a later flight and I’m so glad I didn’t get to the counter on time to take them up on it. Saw the news reports a half hour before landing. |
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| ▲ | CobrastanJorji 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah but imagine the guy who took that offer a couple of hours later. He was the real winner. |
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| ▲ | _blackhawk_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same here in PIT. Ubers are as much as my flight. |
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| ▲ | jsolson 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The flight crew on my LHR-SEA flight "still expects to land in the US." The lack of conviction in that expectation was audible. I don't get the impression that they're being told very much, but maybe that's literally a consequence of the "communication issues." edit: we're on approach into Seattle, so apparently we were one of the happy cases of the "case-by-case basis." |
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| ▲ | jondwillis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | On a domestic flight that just landed normally, FWIW. | |
| ▲ | greggsy 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Secretary of Homeland Security just assured a press conference that all planes in the air will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Some may be prioritised. | | | |
| ▲ | pimlottc 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I hear Newfoundland is lovely this time of year | |
| ▲ | sleepytimetea 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You are enroute ? Good thing Starlink still works. | | |
| ▲ | tjohns 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oceanic traffic would be over HF radio (or CPDLC) and not affected by this - until you get back over land and switch to VHF radio. Most airliners over the ocean also have inmarsat satphones for the pilots. | |
| ▲ | lxgr 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or Panasonic or Viasat/Inmarsat :) | | |
| ▲ | Melatonic 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | What network does the Panasonic run on ? | | |
| ▲ | lxgr 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I believe they lease Ku band transponders from various commercial GEO satellites, think Eutelsat, Telesat, SES etc. |
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| ▲ | jsolson 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Indeed, on both counts! |
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| ▲ | lacoolj 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are you in the air now? Looks like it might be over but unclear really |
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| ▲ | ssttoo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same here, LAX |
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| ▲ | downrightmike 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| get a hotel room before you can't |
