Flights resume from 8:15 p.m. Washington time, or 2:15 a.m. Saturday in Paris. That hour ends the halt on departures decided during the outage.
U.S. airspace reopens on the evening of Friday, November 13, after several hours of a suspension of all takeoffs.
The measure, extremely rare, causes the cancellation of flights serving the entire world. About 6,000 connections are canceled and hundreds of thousands of passengers are affected.
According to AFP and flight-tracking tools cited by the press, the toll stands at about 6,000 cancellations. The scale exceeds a mere local delay and affects international traffic that passes through the United States.
During the suspension, no takeoff is authorized. The freeze applies to aircraft still on the ground, whose departure remains prohibited until the reopening on Friday evening.
Aircraft already in the air, however, continue their journeys. More than 3,500 aircraft land following the planned procedures, which allows traffic already under way before the halt on departures to be cleared.
The outage behind the decision is computer-related. The equipment was overloaded with data and failed, a detail added in the account of the facts.
The reopening restores takeoffs; it does not erase cancellations already issued. Hundreds of thousands of passengers remain marked by several hours of an extremely rare freeze on traffic departing the United States.