(CNN) — Air traffic control problems are triggering hour-long flight delays to Florida airports, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.
“The FAA has slowed traffic into Florida airspace due to an air traffic computer issue that is being resolved,” the agency said in a statement.
A publicly available airspace status bulletin shows flight delays averaging two hours with a maximum delay of six hours.
According to the FAA, the problem lies with the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system at the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center.
This center is responsible for controlling millions of cubic miles of airspace for commercial flights over Florida.
A spokesman for Miami International Airport attributed delays there to a Florida-wide “FAA computer system issue.”
The FAA previously said Monday would be a busy post-Christmas travel day with 42,000 scheduled flights, “with a potentially greater volume from south to north.”
Affected airports
According to flight tracking site FlightAware, some of Florida’s major airports serving tourists have been affected by the air travel computer problem. They include:
• Miami International Airport (MIA) with delays of up to 30 minutes and as of 4:30 p.m. ET on Monday.
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) with departure delays of up to 29 minutes and decreasing and arrivals of approximately 34 minutes and decreasing from 4:30 p.m
• Orlando International Airport (MCO) with departure delays up to 30 minutes and increasing and arrival delays up to 53 minutes and increasing from 4:30 p.m
CNN’s Melissa Alonso and Forrest Brown contributed to this report.
Top image: American Airlines planes sit on the tarmac at Miami International Airport in a January 2022 photo. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)