US airspace reopens after nationwide ground stop

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Flights resumed after roughly four hours, but widespread delays and cancellations continued as the aviation network worked to recover. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that restoring normal operations would take time and criticized the age of the air-traffic-control infrastructure. The disruption has become the most consequential immediate global news event because it affected nationwide transportation, exposed vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, and prompted scrutiny of US aviation-system resilience.[1][3]

Sources: Euronews, BBC