U.S. departures are moving again on Saturday morning, after the FAA held every one of them from 3:54 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on Friday. It was the second nationwide ground stop since 11 September 2001, and it ran for more than four hours, starting minutes after Chicago had already been stopped. FlightAware listed more than 10,000 delays and 4,000 cancellations on Friday. FlightRadar24 counted another 700 already cancelled for Saturday.

Donald Trump has not posted about it. On a normal day, you can't get the man in orange away from his own social media network "Truth Social", but at the time of writing he hasn't posted to it in 10 hours, and the only thing we've heard from the U.S. President has been by proxy.

The only time we've heard from the US President, it was via Fox News host Peter Doocy. Doocy claimed that he spoke to Trump over the phone, who blamed the third nationwide grounding of planes in US history on "a bunch of old broken stuff in the infrastructure" and noted that "some of this is like 55-year-old equipment" that Congress has not yet replaced. According to officials, this is only partly true.