JetBlue ground stop lifted soon after it began

JetBlue ground stop lifted shortly after beginning Shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration suspended all JetBlue flights due to what the agency said was a request from JetBlue, the airline said early Tuesday that the grounding had ended. "A brief system outage has been resolved and we have resumed operations," JetBlue told CBS News in a statement without providing further information. The FAA also said the ground stop had been canceled, telling CBS News in a statement that "operations are normal after JetBlue asked the FAA to suspend flights nationwide overnight due to an internal IT issue." Flight tracking website Flightaware.com showed two JetBlue flights canceled and 155 delays for Monday and none for Tuesday as of 2:40 a.m. EDT. The ground stop was over by then. It was unclear how many, if any, of Monday's delays and cancellations were due to the ground stop. JetBlue is headquartered in New York City and its main terminal is at the city's John F. Kennedy International Airport. In the past, the FAA has issued ground shutdowns for IT outages and safety threats, among other reasons.