Hours-long Florida flight delays caused by FAA air traffic control issue - CNN

(CNN) — Air postulation power issues are triggering hours-long formation delays to Florida airports, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.

"The FAA has slowed the measurement of postulation into Florida airspace owed to an aerial postulation machine contented that is being resolved," the bureau said successful a statement.

A publically disposable airspace presumption announcement shows formation delays averaging 2 hours with a maximum hold of six hours.

The FAA says the contented is 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."

Affected airports

Some of Florida's cardinal airports serving tourists are being affected by the aerial postulation machine problem, according to formation tracking tract FlightAware. They include:

• Miami International Airport (MIA) with delays moving up to 1 hr and 45 minutes and expanding arsenic of 3 p.m. ET Monday.

• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) with delays moving up to 1 hr and 30 minutes and expanding arsenic of 3 p.m.

• Orlando International Airport (MCO) with delays moving up to 45 minutes and expanding arsenic of 3 p.m.

CNN's Melissa Alonso and Forrest Brown contributed to this report.
Top image: American Airlines planes beryllium connected the tarmac astatine Miami International Airport successful a January 2022 record photo. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)