The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all JetBlue flights early Tuesday morning following a request from the airline to do so.
Anadvisorywas posted by the agency’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center.
Nationwide flights to all facilities and destinations were halted, with the freeze remaining in effect from 12:35 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. ET.
“Operations are normal after JetBlue asked the FAA to pause flights nationwide overnight because of an internal IT issue,” the FAA said in a statement.
JetBluetoldFOX Business, “A brief system outage has been resolved and we have resumed operations.”
Over the past few years, there have been several freak occurrences and disruptions in air travel for a myriad of reasons.
In October, Alaska Airlines was forced to ground its planes for hours due to a technology outage. Three months earlier, Alaska grounded all flights for about three hours after a hardware failure at a data center, The Associated Pressreported.
In 2024, a global IToutagecaused flights from several major U.S. airlines — including American Airlines, Delta, and United — to be disrupted. Over 1,000 flights were canceled or delayed.
In June 2025, aninvestigationwas launched into an American Airlines flight after five people were hurt from apparent turbulence.
During another American Airlines flight in February, abullet holewas discovered in the right wing of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft after it landed in Medellin, Colombia, after a flight from Miami, Florida.
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