Operations have resumed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) after the airspace briefly closed on Monday night because of an air traffic controller testing positive for COVID-19. It was the second time in less than a week that the air hub suspended the operation after a staff tested positive for the viral disease.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closed the airspace across the Texas air hub around 6:55 p.m. CST and reopened the space around 8:15 p.m. whereas the Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) was cleaned, WFAA reports. The scheduled sanitization impacted flights, the airport tweeted.
Notably, the same situation unfolded at DFW just 5 days earlier. On Dec. 30, flights were briefly grounded as a result of an air control tower had to be cleaned, after two different staff tested positive for the coronavirus over a three-day interval.
For better or worse, increasingly individuals seem to be touring by commercial air. On Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened over 1.3 million passengers at airports across America, a record high for security screening checkpoints because the pandemic started in March 2020.
January 3 is traditionally one of many busiest travel days of the yr, following the Christmas vacation and the beginning of the new yr, TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein mentioned.
