Ground stop at Savannah/Hilton Head (SAV), Oct 28, 2026

EndedEquipment outage halts Savannah departures for 1 hour 38 minutes

Started: Wed, Oct 28, 10:42 AM EDT14:42 UTC
Ended: Wed, Oct 28, 12:20 PM EDT16:20 UTC
Duration: 1 hr 38 min
Cause: equipment outage; Extended 1 time

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What happened

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

Cause: An equipment outage affected air traffic control systems, so departures from Savannah were held to keep flights safely spaced.

The ground stop began at 14:42 UTC on October 28 because of an equipment outage. At 15:26 UTC it was extended to 12:30 pm Eastern, and departures from one air traffic control center were released. The ground stop ended at 16:20 UTC, lasting 1 hour 38 minutes.

Impact by airline

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

Airline numbers appear after the first sample, within about 20 minutes of the start.

Impact by region

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

Center	Status
Jacksonville Center (ZJX)	Held

Aircraft at the airport

Peak 0 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, 10:42 AM EDT
Ground stop issued at SAV for equipment outage, until 11:30 am EDT. Departures held from ZTL, ZJX.
Oct 28, 11:26 AM EDT
Extended until 12:30 pm EDT.
Oct 28, 11:26 AM EDT
Chance of extension now medium.
Oct 28, 11:26 AM EDT
Scope narrowed: departures from ZTL released.
Oct 28, 12:20 PM EDT
Ground stop ended after 1 hr 38 min.

Advisories

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

ATCSCC ADVZY 037 SAV/ZJX 10/28/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: SAV
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 1521Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 28/1424Z - 28/1630Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Internal) ZJX
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 60 / 44 / 12
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 314 / 104 / 63
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: EQUIPMENT / OUTAGE
COMMENTS: ZTL REMOVED FROM SCOPE

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 SAV 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 SAV, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at SAV; 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 SAV 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 SAV, 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.