LIVE UPDATE: Federal stop order causes flight delays at Myrtle Beach airport

MYR encourages travelers to check the website amid FAA outage

Updated at 10:05 a.m.

At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the MYR airport sent out a statement addressing the FAA outage.

The release is as follows:

“A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) computer system outage has resulted in the temporary grounding of domestic flights earlier this morning, and as a result, three departing flights from Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) have been delayed. The FAA ground stop was lifted shortly before 9:00 AM EST and commercial flights are expected to resume shortly. Travelers flying out of MYR today are encouraged to check their respective airline’s website for any changes or updates to their flight status.”

Three flights delayed out of Myrtle Beach International Airport

Three flights departing out of the Myrtle Beach International Airport, MYR, have been delayed after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop on all domestic departures across the United States on Wednesday morning.

The delays, according to the MYR website, are below.

• MYR to Charlotte (CLT) 7 a.m. delayed until 9:30
• MYR to New York (LGA) 7:20 a.m. delayed until 10 a.m.
• MYR to Baltimore (BWI) 8:30 a.m. delayed until 9:30 a.m

Two other flights have been delayed, which were scheduled for later in the morning.

• MYR to Nashville (BNA) 11 a.m. delayed until 1:02 p.m.
• MYR to Washington (DCA) 12:55 p.m. flight delayed until 1:54 p.m.

The latest flight information is available on the MYR website.

The FAA lifted its ground stop order shortly before 9 a.m. However, delays and cancellations continue to snowball.

More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. today, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.

Some medical flights could get clearance and the outage did not impact any military operations or mobility.

Before commencing a flight, pilots are required to consult NOTAMs, or Notices to Air Missions, which list potential adverse impacts on flights, from runway construction to the potential for icing.

The system used to be telephone-based, with pilots calling dedicated flight service stations for the information, but has now moved online.

“Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews,” the FAA said in a Twitter post at 8:50 a.m.. “The ground stop has been lifted. We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem.”

Flight-tracking software FlightAware shows that there are more than 4,000 flight delays nationwide.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This story was originally published January 11, 2023 at 9:38 AM.