Another major airport hit with massive delays after system outages and equipment failures at Newark and Atlanta | 12 May 2025 | A third American airport experienced massive delays this weekend in the latest of a string of air travel setbacks. Planes at the airport in Austin, Texas, were delayed for up to an hour and a half Sunday because of "chronic understaffing" at the FAA's air traffic control tower, reported KUT News. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has little more than half of the air traffic controllers the government says it's supposed to have. As of January, only 32 of the required 60 positions were filled at Austin's airport, staffing records showed.