Ground stop at Teterboro (TEB), Oct 28, 2026

EndedStaffing problems halt departures from Teterboro for 79 minutes

Started: Wed, Oct 28, 4:47 PM EDT20:47 UTC
Ended: Wed, Oct 28, 6:06 PM EDT22:06 UTC
Duration: 1 hr 19 min
Cause: STAFFING; Extended 1 time

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What happened

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

Cause: Air traffic control staffing problems led to the ground stop, holding flights out of Teterboro until controllers could handle them again.

The ground stop began at 20:47 UTC, first citing compacted traffic and then airport volume, before being changed to staffing at 21:24 UTC and extended to 6:30 pm Eastern. It ended at 22:06 UTC, after 1 hour 19 minutes, before the extended time. Departures had been held from nine air traffic control centers.

Impact by airline

No airline data was collected for this ground stop.

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
ZAU	Held
ZTL	Held
ZDC	Held
ZNY	Held
ZJX	Held
ZOB	Held
ZBW	Held
ZID	Held
ZMP	Held

Timeline

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

Oct 28, 4:47 PM EDT
Ground stop issued at TEB for compacted, until 5:45 pm EDT. Departures held from ZAU, ZTL, ZDC, ZNY and 5 more.
Oct 28, 4:49 PM EDT
Reason changed to airport volume.
Oct 28, 5:23 PM EDT
New advisory issued.
Read the advisory ↗
Oct 28, 5:24 PM EDT
Reason changed to staffing.
Oct 28, 5:24 PM EDT
Extended until 6:30 pm EDT.
Oct 28, 6:06 PM EDT
Ground stop ended after 1 hr 19 min.

Advisories

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

ATCSCC ADVZY 065 TEB/ZNY 10/28/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: TEB
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 2116Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 28/2106Z - 28/2230Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Manual) ZAU ZTL ZDC ZNY ZJX ZOB ZBW ZID ZMP
  CYHZ CYOW CYUL CYYZ CYTZ CYQB
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 760 / 64 / 33
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 1739 / 109 / 76
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: STAFFING / STAFFING
COMMENTS: EXPECT A GDP TO EXIT THE GROUND STOP.

Original advisory ↗

ATCSCC ADVZY 061 TEB/ZNY 10/28/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: TEB
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 2041Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 28/2031Z - 28/2145Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Manual) ZAU ZTL ZDC ZNY ZJX ZOB ZBW ZID ZMP

PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 0 / 0 / 0
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 1227 / 69 / 45
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: VOLUME / COMPACTED DEMAND
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 TEB 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 TEB, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at TEB; 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 TEB 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 TEB, 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.