It appears that it was not just weather that was making travel miserable for many today. We knew there was some kind of ATC issue on the East Coast, but was not sure what. Reports now say that the Atlanta NADIN (datalink) went down either late Thursday or early Friday morning — and as a result the FAA then rerouted the system’s functions to another system in Salt Lake City, which then overloaded due to the increased volume of data.

Nice.

And heck, the FAA hasn’t even installed VISTA yet!