US air disruption cancels more than 16,000 flights

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The disruption began after a communications outage affected US air traffic operations, grounding flights for several hours and canceling about 12,000 flights on Friday, with another 4,000 to 5,000 cancellations expected Saturday. The scale of the outage has caused significant nationwide travel disruption, while officials have attributed the difficulty in restoring normal service to aging air-traffic-control infrastructure.[2][4]

Sources: Federal Aviation Administration, AFP, Euronews, Hindustan Times