Ground stop at Austin-Bergstrom (AUS), Oct 28, 2026

EndedLow clouds halt Austin departures for 43 minutes

Started: Wed, Oct 28, 10:21 AM CDT15:21 UTC
Ended: Wed, Oct 28, 11:04 AM CDT16:04 UTC
Duration: 43 min
Cause: low ceilings

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What happened

AI-written · may contain mistakes. Written from the advisory text and weather only.

Cause: Very low cloud cover and hazy mist near the Austin airport made conditions unsafe for planes to take off, so departures were paused.

A ground stop at Austin-Bergstrom began at 15:21 UTC on October 28, 2026, with departing flights held from two air traffic control centers. It ended at 16:04 UTC, after 43 minutes, and the stop was not extended. Air traffic control had reported a medium chance of extension before it lifted.

Impact by airline

Aircraft seen on the ground at AUS and holding nearby, by airline.

Airline	On ground	Holding
Delta Air Lines DL	3	—
Southwest Airlines WN	3	—
United Airlines UA	2	—
American Airlines AA	1	—
Air Canada AC	1	—
Endeavor Air 9E	1	—
SkyWest Airlines OO	1	—

Impact by region

Air traffic control centers whose departures to the airport were held.

Center	Status
Fort Worth Center (ZFW)	Held
Houston Center (ZHU)	Held

Aircraft at the airport

Peak 13 on the ground, 0 holding nearby.

On the ground Holding nearby

Timeline

Every change published while the ground stop was in effect, as seen each minute.

Oct 28, 10:21 AM CDT
Ground stop issued at AUS for low ceilings, until 11:30 am CDT. Departures held from ZHU, ZFW.
Oct 28, 11:04 AM CDT
Ground stop ended after 43 min.

Advisories

The air traffic control advisories issued for this ground stop, as published.

ATCSCC ADVZY 036 AUS/ZHU 10/28/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: AUS
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 1518Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 28/1508Z - 28/1630Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Manual) ZHU ZFW
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 0 / 0 / 0
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 311 / 66 / 31
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: WEATHER / LOW CEILINGS
COMMENTS:

Original advisory ↗

How it is measured

Status, timeline, cause and held centers: the national airspace status feed, checked every minute, and the air traffic control advisories it links to.
Delays by airline and region: departures and arrivals at AUS 30 or more minutes late, by their estimated delay against the schedule, sampled every 10 minutes while the stop is active and once more after it ends.
Totals and cancellations: arrival and departure boards for AUS, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at AUS; cancelled is the airline's cancelled status; codeshares count once. Flights scheduled from the start until an hour after the end are counted.
Held at origin: the same arrivals boards, which carry each flight's scheduled and actual departure from its origin. A flight is held when it is still scheduled, not departed, 15 or more minutes past its scheduled departure at a sample taken during the stop. In scope: its origin is in a held center or listed facility; flights from elsewhere are late for other reasons.
Inbound in the air: the same arrivals boards. At each board taken during the stop, a flight to AUS is in the air when it has departed (en route, or with an actual departure time) and not landed, cancelled or diverted; one still shown in the air over an hour past its arrival estimate, or departed more than 18 hours earlier, is treated as stale and left out.
Diversions: an inbound flight marked diverted during the stop or the wrap-up after it (not one marked before it could have departed), or one still shown in the air 30+ minutes past its arrival estimate that ADS-B (by its ICAO call sign) then found on the ground at another airport, not its origin. The diversion airport is the airport ADS-B found it at, else the updated destination. Cancellations never count. Regional flights flown under another call sign can't be found on ADS-B, so their diversion airport may be unknown.
Aircraft on the ground and holding: ADS-B positions around AUS, every 5 minutes; the airline is read from the call sign. Holding counts airline flights only (passenger, regional and cargo), not private, military or medical flights.
Weather: METARs, SIGMETs and weather alerts.
News: headline links filtered to this airport and these days; we show titles and links only.

Data sources are listed on the credits page.