Air traffic cuts in the United States have continued for the third consecutive day, with more than 5,200 canceled or delayed flights until Sunday.

However, US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy has predicted that air traffic will return to normality by Monday, while airlines are trying to restore regular schedules after the general break of flights.

According to FlightAware platform data, more than 1,600 flights across the country have been cancelled on Sunday, while another 3,600 have been delayed. A day earlier, airlines had cancelled over 6,400 flights and had recorded more than 8,000 delays.

Speaking of the ABC television programme yet Weekı, Duffy said there is no evidence of any cyberattack or other malicious intent, but the exact cause of the problem has not been determined, Reuters reports.

He said flights will begin to return to normality on Sunday, while full return is expected to take place Monday. Duffy stressed that Federal Aviation Administration priority ( The FAA) remains the safety of travellers.

On Sunday, 27 percent of the jetBlue company’s flights and 13 percent of those in American Airlines were canceled. Meanwhile, Southwest, United Airlines and Delta reported a 3 to 5 per cent cancel of their flights.

On Friday, the FAA had ordered the ban on national flights, suspending almost all departures for nearly five hours. This was the longest air traffic break in the US since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

According to officials, the installation of at least one new facility from the FAA contracting company, L3 Harris, in a remote facility caused overloads of other air control centres from a large amount of data, preventing the functioning of communication systems.

Duffy explained that replacing a rut in an FAA facility in El Dorado, Arkansas caused problems with a ruter that had recently been replaced in Amarilo, Texas. The latter started broadcasting data in such a way that it overloaded rotors at other air control centres across the country.

The FAA announced Sunday that it had disabled the functioning of the rotors that caused the problem, as well as undertaken the same measure for about 60 similar equipment in the air traffic control system.

However, Duffy said authorities still do not know the ultimate cause of the defect, despite the fact that the works of maintenance of this nature were done thousands of times before without causing problems.

He said the worker who had installed the rotor was a veteran and, according to their assessment, American patriot, adding that they do not believe the installation was intended to sabotage the network.

But we haven’t identified the root cause of the problem yet, Duffy said.

Friday’s breakout is the latest and the most serious sign of problems facing the American air traffic control system. This system is burdened with outdated technology, problems with equipment and communication, and a lack of several thousand air traffic controllers.

Duffy said the routines that suffered problems were purchased in 2001 and had been out of the recommended use since 2006.

After the break, it has demanded $50 billion to modernise air traffic control systems, increasing the previous $30 billion requirement. This comes after Congress approved $12.5 billion last year for that purpose.

Trump requires additional financing

Even American President Donald Trump reacted to air traffic problems over the weekend for the first time Sunday, seeking additional financing from American lawmakers.

We’ve already started work, but it has to end all at once and not part-time. Congress must approve, Trump wrote on social networks.

The Democrats are expected to take control of Congress in January, following the results of the November 3rd Mesmandat elections, in which they won additional seats.

Meanwhile, Duffy’s request for more funds has been met with scepticism by the two democratic representatives in the House of Representatives, Rick Larsen and André Carson, who are the main democrat officials on the Committee for Transport and Infrastructure and its subcommittee for aviation.

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