Flight disruptions: Florida hit by air traffic control issue; Denver by freezing fog - CNN

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Two far-apart states are seeing caller aerial question problems connected Monday.

Air postulation power issues triggered hours-long formation delays to Florida airports, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN. And the main airdrome successful Denver, Colorado, is seeing important cancellations and delays due to the fact that of a caller circular of wintertime weather.

Late Monday afternoon, the FAA told CNN that the contented successful Florida was resolved.

“The FAA is moving toward safely returning to a mean postulation complaint successful the Florida airspace,” the bureau said successful a statement.

Earlier successful the day, the FAA told CNN that it had “slowed the measurement of aerial postulation into Florida airspace owed to an aerial postulation machine issue.”

A publically disposable airspace presumption announcement showed formation delays aboriginal Monday day averaging astir 3 hours with a maximum hold up to six hours.

The FAA said the contented was with the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) strategy astatine the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center.

That halfway is liable for controlling millions of cubic miles of airspace for commercialized flights implicit Florida.

A spokesperson for Miami International Airport attributed delays determination to a Florida-wide “FAA machine strategy issue.”

The FAA said earlier that Monday would beryllium a engaged post-Christmas question time with 42,000 flights scheduled, “with imaginable heavier measurement from southbound to north.”

Some of Florida’s cardinal airports serving tourists person been affected by the aerial postulation machine problem, according to formation tracking tract FlightAware.

They see Miami International Airport (MIA), Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Orlando International Airport (MCO).

About 750 flights originating oregon destined for the Denver International Airport were either delayed oregon canceled Monday due to the fact that of inclement weather, according to FlightAware.

As of 4:20 p.m. ET, astir 285 flights acceptable to depart Denver International were delayed, and astir 130 flights were canceled, FlightAware said. Almost 215 flights acceptable to arrive, were delayed and conscionable implicit 130 were canceled.

According to CNN Weather, Denver has been reporting freezing fog with temperatures successful the 20s since 6 a.m. section time.

Visibility has been astatine oregon beneath a 4th of a mile each day. Light snowfall fell overnight, but the superior crushed for the delays and cancellations is the freezing fog and debased visibility.

The airdrome astatine Denver was peculiarly hard deed past week during Southwest’s work meltdown.