FAA Lifts Full Ground Stop Issued for JetBlue Due to System Outage

Image: Two JetBlue airplanes parked. (Photo Credit: Roman Tiraspolsky / Adobe Stock)
Image: Two JetBlue airplanes parked. (Photo Credit: Roman Tiraspolsky / Adobe Stock)
Donald Wood
by Donald Wood
Last updated: 8:00 AM ET, Tue March 10, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was forced to temporarily ground all JetBlue flights on Tuesday morning due to an internal computer system outage.

According to The Associated Press, JetBlue discovered a technical issue and contacted the FAA at around 12:35 a.m. ET to stop all of its flights while it assessed and remedied the problem.

The FAA’s ground stop lasted around an hour before flights were allowed to resume at 1:30 a.m. ET. While no JetBlue flights were permitted to take off, the airline’s planes already flying were permitted to continue to their destinations.

“A brief system outage has been resolved and we have resumed operations,” a JetBlue spokesperson said in a statement.

As for the impact on Tuesday morning travel, passengers flying with JetBlue from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Boston Logan International Airport have been advised to check their flight status before heading to the airport.

While some “minor residual delays are expected throughout the day as the airline works to reposition aircraft and crews,” according to AirLive.net, there are no major disruptions being reported by FlightAware.com.


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