President Trump said Congress should approve urgent, one-time funding for the US air-traffic control system, arguing a lump-sum appropriation would allow rapid, efficient completion of upgrades and deliver the world’s best air-traffic control. He said large parts of the existing system have been in use for about 50 years and called that situation ridiculous. Trump said work has begun but the upgrade should be advanced in one go rather than piecemeal, urged Congress to approve the funds, and said

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U.S. air-traffic disruption entered a third day on Sunday, affecting more than 5,200 flights. FlightAware reported over 1,600 cancellations and roughly 3,600 delays nationwide on Sunday. Transport Secretary Duffy said operations began to be restored on Sunday but full recovery may not occur until Monday. Duffy said a router replacement at an FAA facility in El Dorado, Arkansas triggered faults in a recently replaced router in Amarillo, Texas, which began broadcasting large volumes of data and overloaded other center routers. The FAA said it has disabled the problematic router’s functions and applied the same measures to about 60 similar routers; Duffy said the ultimate root cause remains unclear and noted the routers were procured in 2001 and were already obsolete by 2006.