All airlines ordered to pause domestic flights

Expert: Domestic flights won’t be back to normal until Thursday or Friday

NBC aviation analyst Capt. John Cox said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that domestic flights won’t return to their normal schedules until Thursday or Friday given the “domino effect” of the delays and cancellations caused by the nationwide computer outage.

“There’s a domino effect to this — airplanes move around the world, and consequently, as an example, an airplane that’s trapped in New York, in four hours, is expected to be in Los Angeles, in five hours. And so the people in Los Angeles that are depending on that airplane, their flight will be either delayed or canceled, and the airplane would then say, ‘Go to Hawaii, and then come back,'” he said. “So you’ve got all of these airplanes moving around throughout the day.”