Major airline has all flights suddenly grounded - in business since 1998

A major airline briefly grounded its flight earlier today (March 10).

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all JetBlue flights after a request that came from the airline itself.

JetBlue said this was due to "a brief system outage," and added that they have since "resumed operations". It is understood the ground stop lasted 40 minutes.

A spokesperson for teh FAA said "operations are normal after JetBlue asked the FAA to pause flights nationwide overnight because of an internal IT issue".

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"JetBlue launched service in 2000 with the mission of bringing humanity back to air travel," a message on the airline website read.

The US airline has been in business for more than two decades later, and is the sixth largest airline in the country. It is based in New York and also operate from the city’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

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