US flight ban delays Icelandair arrivals and Europe departures

Icelandair flights were disrupted on Saturday after a US flight ban delayed arrivals from the country, mbl.is reported. The delays also affected all of the airline’s flights to Europe.

Ásdís Ýr Pétursdóttir, Icelandair’s director of communications, said the airline expected its network to return to normal later in the day.

The US Federal Aviation Administration stopped all air traffic in the United States on Friday evening because of serious failures in air traffic control communications systems. The ban lasted about four hours and was lifted at 1.15am on Saturday.