An FAA equipment outage at Minneapolis control center on August 7, 2026, caused flight delays and ground stops at major Midwest airports. Delays impacted flights across eight states including Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa.
The FAA imposed ground stops at LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark airports on August 7, 2026, because of severe storms. Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled across these New York area airports.
On August 7, 24 US airports faced 44 FAA delay programmes led by thunderstorms. JFK experienced the longest ground stops and highest peak delay of 920 minutes.