Ground stop at Los Angeles (LAX), Oct 14, 2026

EndedEquipment outage halts departures from LAX for 52 minutes

Started: Wed, Oct 14, 4:03 AM PDT11:03 UTC
Ended: Wed, Oct 14, 4:55 AM PDT11:55 UTC
Duration: 52 min
Cause: equipment outage

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What happened

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

Cause: An equipment outage at LAX forced the ground stop, and the weather was clear and calm, so it was not the cause.

The ground stop began at 11:03 UTC on October 14, 2026, and departures bound for LAX were held from 10 air traffic control centers. It ended early at 11:55 UTC, after 52 minutes, though it had been scheduled to run until 12:00 UTC. The advisory reported 253 total minutes of delay.

Impact by airline

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

Airline	On ground	Holding
FedEx Express FX	5	—
American Airlines AA	2	—
AeroLogic 3S	2	—
Delta Air Lines DL	2	—
Frontier Airlines F9	2	—
Southwest Airlines WN	2	—
Aeroméxico AM	1	—
Air China Cargo CA	1	—
Copa Airlines CM	1	—
Atlas Air 5Y	1	—
National Airlines N8	1	—
United Airlines UA	1	—
UPS Airlines 5X	1	—

Impact by region

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

Center	Status
Albuquerque Center (ZAB)	Held
Denver Center (ZDV)	Held
Fort Worth Center (ZFW)	Held
Houston Center (ZHU)	Held
Kansas City Center (ZKC)	Held
Los Angeles Center (ZLA)	Held
Salt Lake City Center (ZLC)	Held
Minneapolis Center (ZMP)	Held
Oakland Center (ZOA)	Held
Seattle Center (ZSE)	Held

Aircraft at the airport

Peak 29 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 14, 4:03 AM PDT
Ground stop issued at LAX for equipment outage, until 5:00 am PDT. Departures held from ZLA, ZLC, ZHU, ZFW and 6 more.
Oct 14, 4:55 AM PDT
Ground stop ended after 52 min.

Advisories

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

ATCSCC ADVZY 027 LAX/ZLA 10/14/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: LAX
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 1101Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 14/1046Z - 14/1200Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (2ndTier) ZLA ZLC ZHU ZFW ZDV ZOA ZSE ZKC
 ZAB ZMP
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 0 / 0 / 0
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 253 / 58 / 36
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: EQUIPMENT / OUTAGE
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 LAX 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 LAX, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at LAX; 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 LAX 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 LAX, 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.