Low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways operations are being restored after the airline requested a full – but ultimately brief – groundstop from the US FAA.
The FAA formally declared the groundstop at 04:39UTC on 10 March, shortly after midnight US East Coast time, giving the reason as a “request” from the airline.
It did not elaborate on the carrier’s decision.
But the groundstop covered JetBlue flights “to all destinations”, the FAA notification stated.
However, after being confirmed in a second advisory, the groundstop was subsequently cancelled about 90min later at 06:08UTC.
Some US media, citing JetBlue, have attributed the decision to an IT outage.
