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the holidays and industrywide last summer air travel system is under great stress. federal aviation administration is already warning of a shortage of air traffic controllers that could cause increased delays at new york's three major airports this summer. they're a key air traffic control facility is that only 54% staffing. we're seeing it with delays. seeing with cancelations and that is leading so travelers to say you know what i would travel more if we could fix that air travel experience. the latest figures from travel site hopper show many travelers are concerned about flight disruptions. 20% of hopper spring break, travelers are buying extra trip protection that's on top of rising air fare up, 4% hopper says. compared to 2019. quite pricey this time of year, i guess due to spring break and due to what's going on in the economy up one day they go down the next day. just be diligent beyond point when you see that good price you want hit the button. even still, industry figures say 158 million
spring break is here for thousands, many thousands of students across the country and airport officials say it is leading to a travel surge even bigger than before the covid 19 pandemic. that is wild right now. the faa is preparing to handle 46,000 flights today alone. but industry experts say those numbers would be far greater if it were not for the recent string of airline gaffes . cnn aviation correspondent pete mountain has more on that. spring break. travel is soaring back to normal and renewing worry that your flight could be canceled. meltdowns plagued the faa in january southwest airlines over the holidays and industrywide last summer air travel system is under great stress. federal aviation administration is already warning of a shortage of air traffic controllers that could cause increased delays at new york's three major airports this summer. they're a key air traffic control facility is that only 54% staffing. we're seeing
news just in to cnn. a u.s. official tells cnn that a full ground stop was issued to some pilots on the west coast monday for a short period of time, following a warning in response to the launch of a north korean missile. >> to be clear, the official says it was not a national groundstop. it may have been issued by a regional air traffic control facility. remarkable nonetheless. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has been following all of this. pete, do we know who issued it? i'm curious, in your many years covering the aviation sector, have you seen any precedent for something like this? >> there has never been a national groundstop in the united states since 9/11, jim, which makes this so unusual that this alert would have gone out to air traffic control facilities on the west coast. we're hearing recordings now from some airports on the west coast, burbank, california, also hillsborough, oregon, also an official in san diego, california, tells us, there was this national groundstop yesterday.
>> and we're in the middle of a 30-year staffing shortage. it's thin the way it is. we cannot sustain that. >> i want to put this sign up. let's take a look at this sign. "warning, this facility is used in faa air traffic control. loss of human life may result from service interruption. any person who interferes with air traffic control or damages or trespasses on this property will be prosecuted under the law." it's posted outside of an faa air traffic control facility. it speaks volumes to what is at stake here. >> it does, doesn't it? that's written by the federal government to the general public, to warn them the dangers of interrupting with the system. the same federal government that's doing it today. >> yeah. >> that's the irony of this whole thing. >> sara, i've got to go but i'll give you the last word here. >> well, people are coming to work, and they're trying to make this work. and there are those who are coming to work with hardships at home and those who have even tried to take their lives in this process. that's how stressful the people who are patriotic americans trying to make this work. no shutdown has gone on this long, and there's a reason for that. we're not safe now, and it's
the government is back open, and then they can do whatever politics they do in washington. but this is affecting people's lives. i've got to ask you, dan, air traffic controllers have to work without pay. you fear they could quit or retire. is there a backup plan? >> it's not a fear. it's a guarantee. and there's no backup plan. >> what do you mean it's a guarantee that they're going to -- >> if this stretches on, everyone has a breaking point. is it one check, two checks, three checks, four checks? everybody's got a different story. but at some point -- and it's happening now -- they will resign. they will go get outside jobs. >> yeah. >> and we're in the middle of a 30-year staffing shortage. it's thin the way it is. we cannot sustain that. >> i want to put this sign up. let's take a look at this sign. "warning, this facility is used in faa air traffic control. loss of human life may result from service interruption. any person who interferes with air traffic control or damages or trespasses on this property will be prosecuted under the law." it's posted outof faa air traffic control facility. it speaks volumes to what is at stake here.
looking at how adequate the information was provided to the dispatcher and the pilots was. what alternative flights might there have been? how good was the air traffic control coordination among the indonesian air traffic controllers and between the indonesian air traffic control facility and the singaporean air traffic controllers. how much time did the piles get approval for deviation request because of weather and change altitude? >> can i ask you that because it was two minutes, i believe, between his request, the pilot's request to climb and receiving the basic denial of the request. is that too long? >> we'll have to wait and see. it isn't terribly long, but two minutes would seem like an eternity when you're facing weather threats ahead of you and you would want to deviate as rapidly as possible. that's one of the things that need to be investigated.
senate, more to come. thank you. >> right now, the air space over london is back over but there was a computer dmrich in a an air traffic control facility responsible for the air space over half of the country. greg has details from london. >> the london airports are gradually getting back to normal, but for a while this afternoon, there was chaos in the skies with a ripple affect all around the world. a computer system that runs the control system over all of the uk was knocked out by a glitch this afternoon and the skies over london and southern part of the uk were closed and shut down airports including hesthrow. they handle 2700 planes a day.
arrive in the morning, everything should be okay. back to you. >> tom, just one quick follow-up. this is not the first time this has happened in the u.k., is it? >> no, it's not. this particular radar facility or air traffic control facility has had problems just in the last 12 months. clearly that's part of this investigation. what seems to be the problem here, that particular air traffic station was open about 12 years ago or so and it's really had plenty of bugs, plenty of problems over the last 10 to 12 years, so trying to iron out this mess is going to be -- going to take some time. in trying to figure out what happened, i think they'll all try to get to the bottom of it. >> tom costello, thanks for the update. >> you bet. coming up, it has been described as an avalanche of mud and debris. we'll look at the deadly storm wreaking havoc on the west coast. that is next. new cadillac. ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. ♪
typicalically in a united states-built plane is involved in an accident the ntsb will go to to assist but this is a boeing 777 and this is military action and takes it to a whole different level. as for any role they would play, if they are looking for the black boxes and if the black boxes are recovered you wonder what value is there of the black boxes? we already know the plane was shot down. the black boxes will probably only tell you the speed and the heading at the time of the explosion and maybe capture cockpit discussions between the pilots in which they perhaps were talking to each other and worried about the plane coming apart. but in terms of conversations with air traffic control, that is already on tape. the air traffic control facility has that. in terms of determining what kind of a missile brought this plane down, the black boxes won't tell you that. to some extent this is really going to be dependent upon the intelligence agencies, including the united states, to say this is trajectory of that missile we spotted leaving this territory
traffic control system in southern california malfunctioned last week. a u-2 spy plane, the faa says airport computers were not able to process the spy plane's flight plan and the software became overwhelmed. hundreds of planes across the nation headed for southern california were ordered not to take off as an air traffic control facility had to be rebooted. a small plane towing an advertising banner developed engine trouble and crashed into a house north of denver. no one home at the time. although the plane caught fire, the pilot was uninjured. he found a garden hose and tried to put out the flames but had to back off when it was too hot. the pilot was aiming for a nearby field. he was unable to reach it. three base jumpers will be in a new york city court for jumping off the new world trade center building last september. they released this video clip from the helmet cam of one of them who landed in a park along the river. earlier they released a video of another jumper who landed on a highway with relatively little traffic since it was 3:00 a.m. they face burglary and other charges.