Millions of air travellers once again had their trips grounded, this time due to an outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) computer system, known as NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions). Jackson Proskow explains what NOTAM does, how the outage frustrated travellers, and how long it will take for airlines to get back on track.
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