Nearly 9,500 flights were halted across the US after an FAA ground stop. What to do if your trip was affected.

People stranded at Miami airport amid the ATC outage on Friday. Giorgio VIERA / AFP via Getty Images

Nearly 9,500 flights were canceled or halted after a nationwide air traffic control outage on Friday.

This is considered an uncontrollable disruption, so airlines aren't required to provide freebies.

Here's what you can do if your flight is delayed or canceled.

US airlines are canceling thousands of flights after a rare air traffic control outage affected the US .

As of 10:30 p.m. ET, nearly 9,500 flights scheduled to depart the US on Friday and Saturday had been canceled or did not take off, according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics…

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