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The US transport secretary says that normal air-traffic operations may not be restored until Monday.

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Australians remain stranded overseas after the unprecedented national grounding of flights in the US.

Australian travellers are bracing for days of flight delays after planes across the US were grounded for four hours.

Air carriers in the US canceled some 16,000 flights over the past 24 hours in the biggest such grounding since 9/11. Officials hinted that incompetence or faulty equipment, not malfeasance, is the cause.

The US government has blamed a nationwide aviation shutdown which has disrupted more than 20,000 flights on a program to replace copper wires with new fibre ones.

FAA administrator Bryan Bedford also said there's "zero evidence of anything AI-related."

<p>Weary travellers braced for more delays and cancellations on Saturday as flights resumed from US airports after being grounded for four hours due to a major outage on outdated communications systems.</p> <p>Friday’s nationwide stop sparked widespread chaos and left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before de

<p>Weary travellers braced for more delays and cancellations on Saturday as flights resumed from US airports after being grounded for four hours due to a major outage on outdated communications systems.</p> <p>Friday’s nationwide stop sparked widespread chaos and left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before de

Flights in the United States were resuming on Saturday after being grounded for several hours due to a major communications outage, though authorities said returning to normal operations would take time.

FAA lifted the ground stop at 1.15am GMT on Saturday, but warned it would take ​time for airlines to restore normal operations

<p>The US grounded all flights for several hours Saturday, sparking travel chaos across the vast country, after what government officials said was a major communications outage caused by decades old technology.</p> <p>The nationwide stop left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline staff w

Major airlines have cancelled more than 4,000 US flights as the US sought to recover from a nationwide ground stop, which left passengers scrambling for seats and disrupted travel around the world.

The Trump administration blamed old and “overloaded” technical infrastructure for the failure, and used it to demand the US Congress appropriate $US50 billion for new systems.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a national ground stop "due to extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety".