It now appears that the Federal Aviation Administration has ensured travelers that the computer glitches that caused flight cancellations and delays around the country last Thursday have all been fixed. Air travelers around the nation scrambled to revise their travel plans after the Federal Aviation Administration’s computers caused problems for the second time in 15 months.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the problem, which lasted for a total of about five hours, was fixed by 10 am. However, it was still unclear how long flights would continue to be affected by this glitch.

A spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, Doug Church, said that controllers were still entering flight plans manually in some locations around the country. The officials from the Federal Aviation Administration said that the problem with the computers began at the computer center in Salt Lake City. The officials asked not to be named, because they were not authorized to speak about this event publicly.

The official Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, Paul Takemoto, said that the problem started between 5:15 and 5:30 am, and affected mostly flight plans but also traffic management. This did include things such as ground stops and ground delays. The airplane dispatchers had to send plans to controllers, who entered them into computers by hand. He noted that it is a slow process that just slowed everything down.

It would seem that Heartfiled Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which just so happens to be one of the world’s busiest airports, was affected a lot by this problem. However, most things seem to be up and running smoothly again.