Travellers have been urged to check their flights to the US as disruption may be caused by 5G.
This comes after US airlines have issued a warning about 5G after concerns were raised about the signal impacting flights.
According to a report by the BBC, the airlines fear that the mobile phone service will cause 'major disruption' to flights.
In a letter sent to US aviation authorities, the chief executives of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, along with others raised major concerns that the Verizon and AT&T 5G mobile phone services, that is planned for Wednesday. They claimed that the new phone signal will disrupt planes' navigation systems, especially those used in bad weather.
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The North East of America was hit with a snow storm this month and now residents in the Southern States are being urged to stay home as the storm moves across the continent.
However, discussions are being had with the US Government and it has been described as a 'very fluid situation'.
In the letter sent to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, as well as the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the airlines have highlighted that they want the 5G signals to be excluded from "the approximate two miles of airport runways at affected airports as defined by the FAA on 19 January 2022".
"This will allow 5G to be deployed while avoiding harmful impacts on the aviation industry, travelling public, supply chain, vaccine distribution, our workforce and broader economy".
They added: "We further ask that the FAA immediately identify those base stations closest to key airport runways that need to be addressed to ensure safety and avoid disruption".
The airlines also warned: "Airplane manufacturers have informed us that there are huge swathes of the operating fleet that may need to be indefinitely grounded.
"In addition to the chaos caused domestically, this lack of usable wide-body aircraft could potentially strand tens of thousands of Americans overseas."
The FAA have since said some flights might be affected, although they have approved two radio altimeter models that are installed in a wide variety of Boeing and Airbus planes".
The regular has also said that they are continuing to work with manufactures to understand how radar altimeter data is used in other flight control systems.
They added: "Passengers should check with their airlines if weather is forecast at a destination where 5G interference is possible."
How does 5G affect flights?
As the BBC explains, 5G relies on radio signals with frequencies similar to the ones used by radio altimeters on aeroplanes.
These radio altimeters measures the height of the aircraft above the ground.
While 5G is being used throughout the world already, in the US, the radio frequencies being used for 5G are in part of the spectrum known as C-Band, and so there are concerns that interference could be possibility.
