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Operations at Dallas-area airports back to normal levels, FAA says
Reuters | September 21, 2025 3:00 AM CST

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Normal operations resume at Dallas Fort Worth and Dallas Love Field airports. The FAA confirms recovery after a telecommunications failure. Frontier, a local company, caused the disruption. The outage impacted the FAA's Dallas TRACON facility. American Airlines had to cancel 690 flights since Friday. This affected around 100,000 passengers. The FAA is collaborating with airlines to manage flight recovery plans.

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Operations at Dallas Fort Worth and Dallas Love Field airports have returned to normal levels, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Saturday,

The FAA said it was working with airlines on recovery plans to support impacted flights.

"Yesterday's disruption was caused by multiple failures of the TDMI data telecommunications service provided by Frontier, a local telecommunications company," the FAA said in a statement. "This then led to an outage impacting the FAA's Dallas TRACON facility."


Earlier, American Airlines said it had canceled 690 flights since Friday, impacting 100,000 customers because of the Dallas-area telecommunications outage.
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