Expect your flight out of Miami International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport or Palm Beach International Airport — or any airport in the United States — to be affected after a Wednesday morning FAA information outage.
“The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Time to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information,” the agency said on Twitter.
The Federal Aviation Administration had announced just before 7 a.m. that its Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAM) was being reloaded after an outage. On the FAA website, the agency said the system was “impaired and newly processed NOTAMs are not being displayed.”
The Notice to Air Mission System lets pilots know about any number of temporary hazards or changes in conditions in their flight paths or at their destinations.
American Airlines, the major carrier out of Miami, tweeted, “An FAA outage is impacting all flights including all carriers. We sincerely appreciate your patience as they work to resolve this.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
How can I check a flight’s status?
Miami International Airport has two online trackers you can use.
One of the flight trackers shows a list of all expected arrivals and departures with options to use a drop-down menu to narrow results. It displays the carrier, flight number and where the plane is going to or coming from. It also gives real-time updates on the flight’s arrival or departure status, which concourse the terminal is in and the location of baggage claim.
The other online tool lets you track by flight or route. If you know the carrier, the date and the flight number, this tool might be easier to use because it will only show information for your flight.
FLL’s flight tracker works by flight or route. You’ll need to know the date, along with the airline carrier and flight number or the departure and arrival airport. The tool also gives people the option to see a list of all expected arrivals and departures and details on the flight’s terminal and baggage claim, too.
You can also check your flight status with the airline directly, which might be easier to do through the airline’s app. But you can also check via the airline’s website.
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