Another Twitter user, named Tim (@Tim25224239) told Express.co.uk: “We were literally minutes away from flying .. when they kept postponing the departure time.. 30 minutes turn into one hour, one hour turns into three hours; and then finally, after four hours on the airplane, they finally told us that the government canceled all flights.”
The user was on an LAX flight scheduled for Japan.
What we know so far
Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually in the US after hours of delays, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says.
Chaos struck as a system failure caused at least 1,162 flights within, into or out of the US to be delayed and 94 were cancelled in what has been dubbed an “unprecedented” event.
