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After a temporary ban on all US domestic flights, the first planes are taking off again at Atlanta and Newark airports in the wider New York area. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports this on Twitter.

The FAA is making progress in resolving a computer glitch that caused chaos in US air traffic Wednesday morning.

The outage caused a system malfunction that provides pilots and ground crew with important safety information and notifications of flight operations disruptions. The FAA then temporarily suspended all U.S. domestic flights. Landings are not affected.

The reason for the failure is not yet clear, the White House said. According to reports from the television channel CNN, the White House has not yet assumed a cyber attack. US President Joe Biden is in contact with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

Swiss would not have been affected

The Swiss is not affected by the serious computer failure. “The FAA incident does not currently affect our flights to the United States, the operation is proceeding – as of now – as planned,” a Swiss spokesman said when asked on Wednesday.

The failure at the FAA also has no effect on Lufthansa flights to and from the US, the Swiss parent airline told the German news agency.

(aeg/yam)