US Domestic Flights Were Delayed From FAA Outage & Customers Are Roasting Southwest For It

This morning the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Twitter at 6:29 a.m. that there is an outage to their Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAM). As they work to restore it, the FAA issued all planes to be grounded and delayed until 9 a.m EST.

They are giving live updates on the social media app and wrote that all flights currently in the air are safe to land. The federal organization posted that the computer issue happened overnight.

They published a statement to their website that they are working to "validate the integrity of flight and safety information," the agency's statement reads.

The first departures to resume are Newark and Atlanta because of the air traffic congestion in the areas. This update was announced at 8:15 a.m.

While flights will be back on track shortly, this delay comes after a slew of cancellations from over the holidays and Southwest airlines in particular has been doing their best to make their customers happy.

So, it comes as no surprise that people on Twitter are upset by more delayed travel, even if it isn't necessarily their fault.

The company published a press release that they are "closely monitoring" the data issue, and one woman replied, "I know this is not a problem that falls solely on you, but damn. Can y’all refund the time I’m missing out of my life? I feel bad for the older folks with less time. Also maybe get a backup system? That might be too obvious of a plan..."

Some people are just responding simply, "here we go again," with a face palm emoji.

One man asked if "Southwest’s antiquated system [will] be able to make all the necessary adjustments once the FAA’s NOTAM system is back up and running," and added a hashtag with the company name.

On the flip side, United Airlines also took to Twitter updating their customers. The public responded fairly differently to their account. Many of them were just inquiring about the issue. While others were updating whether their flight was delayed or not.

In regards to Southwest, it's safe to assume customers are harboring a lot of feelings from the holidays still.

There is currently no evidence that the outage was a cyberattack, according to U.S. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Under President Biden's directions, the Department of Transportation will do a full investigation to what caused the issue.

Flights are still scheduled to be back on track by 9 a.m., according to the FAA.