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Some flights to and from the United States were cancelled on Wednesday. This, in spite of AT&T and Verizon scaling back their rollout of new 5G mobile spectrums.
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AT&T said in a statement on Tuesday that it had agreed to temporarily defer turning on a limited number of towers around certain airports runways in light of the threat they could pose to aircraft landing nearby.
However, airlines are continuing to contend with the fallout from what could become a spate of widespread flight cancellations as international airlines that rely mainly on the wide-body Boeing 777 and other Boeing aircraft cancelled many flights, in addition to switching to different planes by dint of warnings from the FAA.
Emirates, which relies heavily on the 777, halted flights to several American cities, except Los Angeles, New York, and Washington.
All the same, airlines whose backbone of aircraft is formed by Airbus jets appear less affected.
As of Wednesday evening, more than 320 flights had been cancelled or delayed. But it's still less disruptive than during the Christmas and New Year's travel season, when a peak of 3,200 flights were cancelled due to winter storms and COVID.
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