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The Federal Aviation Administration lifted a nationwide ground stop on JetBlue flights within an hour on Tuesday (March 10) after what the airline referred to as a "system outage."
“A brief system outage has been resolved and we have resumed operations,” a JetBlue spokesperson confirmed to the Post, though not providing additional details on what caused the incident.
The FAA issued the ground stop at the request of JetBlue, which experienced two cancellations and 135 delays on Monday (March 9), but none reported as of 3:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.com. It's unclear whether the delays and cancellations were connected with the ground stop as of Tuesday morning.
JetBlue was founded on February 11, 2000, and is headquartered in Long Island City, in Queens, New York City, with six focus cities including its main hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, as well as Boston's Logan Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in South Florida, Orlando International Airport in Central Florida, Los Angeles International Airport in California and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airline has more than 110 destinations across the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe, according to a route map shared on its official website.