Except some airports haven't enough free gates for disembarking as planes that wanted to take off were denied. So they tried to go back to their gates. As a result some planes in the air are being diverted to less-busy airports.

Sounds safe, just extremely inconvenient.

John Wayne, a class C (the approach mentioned above) isn't even letting VFRs go. If it's actually limited to ARTCC I don't know why that would be.

Thanks, bud - very reassuring that some minimum bid contract shop built something on a “secure” network they can’t even keep up.