The Federal Aviation Administration reported a temporary outage on August 20, 2026, at a Minneapolis air traffic control facility which manages airspace over 330,000 square miles, including Minnesota and nine other Midwest states.
Flights arriving, departing, or passing through this region were delayed, diverted, or held on the ground as the outage affected radar and air traffic control systems. The disruption involved the air traffic control facility itself, not Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, which fell under the facility’s jurisdiction.
As a result, delays at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport averaged 90 minutes on Thursday evening. Air traffic disruptions continued into the
evening at other Midwest airports located in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
The FAA confirmed the system outages impacted radar and air traffic control operations, affecting flights throughout the Midwest regional airspace controlled by the Minneapolis facility.
