All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

The FAA issued the ground stop “following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a social media post. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue.”

Air Route Traffic Control Centers are regional facilities that handle flights going across the country.

“Traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice,” the FAA said in an advisory. “International flights will be managed on a case by case basis.”

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      26·
      9 hours ago

      Wow, our government will do literally anything to avoid having to pay decent wages and benefits to air traffic controllers.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      332·
      9 hours ago

      September and claims it has already rerouted 180 flights for average savings of 10 minutes and 80 gallons of fuel, Ars wrote (that’s just shy of $345 per flight, at jet fuel rates of $4.31/gallon as of Thursday).

      A tool that cost a little under a BILLION dollars…so far…saved $62,000? That’s the stupidest waste of taxpayer money in the last 5 minutes with this administration. And of course it saved airlines the money, while taxpayers got stuck with the $800 million dollar bill for the WalMart brand airplane route planner.

      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        8 hours ago

        It’s not going to save anyone any money on flights because companies just pocket the difference, but does anyone know how the jet gas/ diesel/ consumer auto gas markets are connected? Is there a chance the reduced jet fuel demand reduces prices at the pump? That’s probably the bigger picture goal here even if it doesn’t actually work that way, because our government is run by dumbasses who wouldn’t even think to ask if they’re connected.

        This looks like one of those large upfront costs things that saves money over the long run because new critical infrastructure systems always cost a lot upfront and need a slow rollout to prevent things like, say, grounding every single flight in the country, but long term pay for themselves. On paper I’m usually in favor of short term spend for long term savings but unfortunately this is a kleptocracy and this is an indirect handout to the airlines.

      • 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world
        75·
        11 hours ago

        “Oops, sorry. You’re absolutely right to question that. Runway 5 did have a plane already on it with 254 passengers on board. Would you like me to assist with notifying their next of kin?”

      • threeonefour@piefed.caEnglish
        311·
        11 hours ago

        I wanted to make a joke like “no but runway 185 is” since the number of a runway is its degrees from magnetic north and each runway gets two numbers, 180 degrees apart, depending on the direction you’re landing from. But the numbers are rounded to 10 meaning runway 5 isnt a real runway number so the joke doesnt really work (it would be runways 01 and 19 for 10 degrees and 190 degrees)

          • Seralth@piefed.seralth.comEnglish
            3·
            7 hours ago

            I feel like half the joke is that Claude would infact consider runways this way and it’s highly likely not understanding this or accidentally miscommunicating with it would induce the exact sort of fuck up he’s describing.

            Also gcp grey has a video that explains this topic really well.

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      291·
      11 hours ago

      FAA denies it’s related to the new system. they say it’s a communication equipment outage.

      so 🤷

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Based on the description in the article, it doesn’t sound like LLMs. It sounds like they are using the older meaning of AI to refer to just computer programs in general.