Airport Delays

Ground delay programmes, arrival and departure holds and closures, as the FAA reports them. The FAA keeps no history of this, so each reading here is a sample kept — which is what makes the pattern visible rather than only the moment.

By airport

BOS DCA EWR JFK LAS LAX LGA PHL SAN SFO

Right now

As the FAA published it at Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:38:25 GMT.

Airport	Kind	Reason	Typical	Worst	Seen
JFK	ground delay	low ceilings	2h 31m	6h 29m	16
EWR	ground delay	low ceilings	1h 20m	3h 19m	7
LAS	ground delay	low ceilings	51m	3h 9m	12
BOS	ground delay	RWY	1h 10m	3h	61
DCA	ground delay	low ceilings	33m	1h 29m	6
SFO	ground delay	runway construction	34m	1h 22m	34
JFK	departure	WX:WindDecreasing	45m	59m	16
LGA	departure	WX:ThunderstormsDecreasing	45m	59m	25
EWR	departure	WX:Low CeilingsIncreasing	31m	45m	7
LAX	closure	!LAX 05/277 LAX AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC 24HR PPR CTC ATLANTIC AVIATION 310-258-9884 OR SIGNATURE AVIATION 310-410-9605 2605271826-2705281600	—	—	81
SAN	closure	!SAN 10/004 SAN AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC PPR 619-298-7704 2610011633-2701010800	—	—	112
PHL	closure	!PHL 09/263 PHL AD AP CLSD TO NON SKED ACFT WINGSPAN MORE THAN 214FT AND TAIL HGT MORE THAN 66FT. 2609301806-2610311200	—	—	19

Source: the FAA's national airspace status feed. A ground delay programme holds aircraft at their origin because the destination cannot take them, and is the one that costs an airline money. Closures are usually a restriction on general aviation rather than a hub shutting, so they carry no duration. The reason is quoted as the FAA writes it.

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