HOUSTON — A computer issue caused big delays at Florida airports, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. According to the FAA, that issue is now resolved.
Earlier today, KHOU 11 reached out to the FAA, which sent a statement about the issue, saying, “The FAA has slowed the volume of traffic into Florida airspace due to an air traffic computer issue that is being resolved."
Then at around 4 p.m., the FAA sent another statment, saying the issue had been resolved and that the FAA is "working toward safely returning to a normal traffic rate in the Florida airspace."
The FAA said the issue had been with the "En Route Automation Modernization" system, or ERAM. The FAA has a page explaining what the ERAM is.
We checked for delays at Bush IAH and Hobby to see if the issue in Florida is having an effect. At 2:50 p.m., according to FlightAware, Bush Intercontinental Airport was seeing average delays of about 43 minutes for departing flights. Hobby Airport was on a ground stop for arriving flights due to storms in the Houston area. For flights already in the air, there was an arrival delay of about 25 minutes.
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This latest travel headache comes on the heels of Southwest Airlines' issues last week, as the airline canceled thousands of flights because of problems triggered by winter weather across the country and staffing technology. Southwest has largely returned to normal operations.