Airline Pilot Tells Us What He Knows About Ground Stop

this is this is huge uh a nationwide ground stoppage what was it like back there what was what was the scene like they just told you guys it's Hey, are you done for the day or are you just standing by? We're done. That's it? So all the rest of the flights for- You don't know, you have to look at the monitors. He like nefarious tone to it, like are they like, are you guys worried like there could be some- Not at all. I mean, so just vague. He just said, ground stop. That's it? They happen all the time, so we don't know. So don't get, nationwide doesn't happen- Not yet, not yet, don't get worried yet. don't get worried yet that's your two-hour update expected a two-hour update so okay everything's probably fine okay thank you this gentleman was about to depart to san jose to san jose what happened they were backed up and then they pulled us back into the gate and said there was a nationwide grounding the faa had a uh i was having an outage but you'd think there'd be a redundancy but they said it'd be at least a couple hours so no more no more information than that no No, the Delta app is... Which I have about a million miles there saying that the flight's just delayed to 1 25, which is obviously past that you think yeah, you think they're just kind of just lip servicing for now until the I think so. That's pretty big. A nationwide FAA. Yeah. Every plane's grounded. Something's up. Are you? I think something's up. I don't know. Did you see a bunch of people angry up there, like coming off the plane? Not really. I just got off. I just came out. You're like, I'm out of here. Yeah. I don't know. They should have a lot of redundancy at scale with how many planes fly. Yeah. I have no idea. Thank you. What's your name? My name's Duncan. Duncan. Yeah. Nice to meet you.