Bay Area airports said they were moving back toward normal operations on Saturday, a day after a nationwide FAA ground stop, but hundreds of flights were still delayed or canceled through the afternoon, The Mercury News reported.

At San Francisco International Airport, 283 flights were delayed and 253 were canceled through about 4:05 p.m. Saturday, SFO duty manager Russ Mackey told the paper. "The biggest thing is they may encounter longer lines at the check in counters due to people still resolving some of their canceled flights from yesterday's outage," Mackey said. "Outside of that, we are departing as normal. Make sure you continually check the status of your flight before heading out to the airport." He said the airport was "back to normal operations" even as airlines were still resolving Friday's cancellations into Saturday evening, and that he expected carriers to be caught up "in the next couple of days."

Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport had 20 cancellations and 58 delays of 30 minutes or more by about 3:20 p.m., spokesperson Kaley Skantz told the Mercury News. "It's hard to say at this time because it's all dependent on airline schedules and staffing as everything normalizes," she said. "We expect operations to normalize as the weekend continues." San Jose Mineta International had 17 canceled flights by Saturday evening, "and most flights have experienced some delays," assistant public information manager Ana Maria State said.

KQED reported a similar picture Saturday, with local airports saying delays were continuing into the weekend but that the situation had improved. SFO duty manager Bob Rotiski told KQED the disruption would "probably go into tomorrow" because aircraft and crews were out of place. San Jose told KQED that, from the airport's perspective, operations were "proceeding normally." FlightAware figures cited by KQED showed SFO with more than 500 cancellations and more than 400 delays on Friday; as of 3:30 p.m. Saturday, KQED said more than 250 flights in and out of SFO had been canceled, and San Jose had more than 80 delays and more than 30 cancellations at that earlier count, before the later Mercury News tallies.

The Friday stop, which KQED said began shortly before 1 p.m. PT and was called off before 5:30 p.m., was the longest nationwide ground stop since 2001. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said officials were installing new equipment when it overwhelmed the system and that there was no evidence of a "nefarious attack," KQED reported. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that a cyberattack or foreign interference was not believed to be the cause.

Travelers and teams felt the spillover. KQED cited a Bay Area News Group report that the San Jose Sharks waited hours before leaving for Utah, and that the San Jose State football team was also delayed. The practical advice from airport officials on Saturday was the same at SFO, Oakland and San Jose: check the flight status before leaving home, and expect ticket-counter lines while Friday's cancellations are still being unwound.