Dubai [UAE], January 12: Etihad Airways on Wednesday said its US operations and flights are not affected by the system outage at the Federal Aviation Administration.
"Etihad Airways is aware of a technical issue affecting all airline flights in North America. At present, this is not having an impact on our operation, and our flights to US destinations currently in the air and preparing to depart this evening are operating as normal," the company said.
"We will closely monitor the situation nd alert our customers should the position change," the company added.
U.S. flights were slowly resuming departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.
More than 7,300 flights were delayed and 1,100 canceled according to the FlightAware website in the first national grounding of flights in about two decades, industry officials said.
Source: Emirates News Agency
