of ground stop has stopped
Friday’s sudden and objectively troubling decision by the FAA to issue only the second nationwide order to ground all planes since 9/11.
The situation should not result in any impact on NFL teams traveling to their road games for Sunday. It should also allow college teams to get to wherever they need to go for Saturday.
If it had happened a day later, the final result could have created chaos for NFL teams, significantly delaying their travel and upending their schedules for the night before the game.
The situation came as a surprise to some NFL teams. For example, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan learned about it during his Friday press conference.
Asked about the ground stop affecting the team’s plans to travel to Dallas on Saturday based on the ground stop, Shanahan said, “When did they do that?”
He also asked, “Why did they do that?”
Finally, Shanahan said, “I didn’t know. I just heard it for the first time.”
The 49ers are scheduled to leave San Francisco at 1:00 pm PT on Saturday. Ten more teams will travel on Saturday.
