xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoAirplane passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, wait to retrieve luggage from cancelled flights during a Federal Aviation Administration nationwide ground stop [Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA]By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 15 Nov 202615 Nov 2026Airlines are still scrambling to return operations to normal after the longest and only second nationwide stop of flights in the United States since the attacks of 9/11 in 2001.