Right now
Live US airport status
Everything else on this site is history: twelve months of Department of Transportation filings, updated once a month. This page is the exception. It shows what the FAA is reporting about the national airspace system at this moment.
It is airport-level operational status, not flight tracking. It will tell you that Newark is under a ground delay programme for weather; it will not tell you where your aircraft is or whether your flight is late. For that, use your airline's app.
FAA national airspace system
What is happening right now
Each dot is one of the 50 airports with a page here, sized by how many departures it handles and shaded by its twelve-month on-time rate. Those two things never change during the day. The rings, the codes and the feed beside them are the live layer, and they are the only part of this page that moves.
Reading this
What each of these means
- Ground stop
- Departures bound for the named airport are held at their origin until further notice. The most severe of these advisories and usually the shortest: most resolve into a ground delay programme within an hour or two rather than into cancellations.
- Ground delay programme
- The airport's arrival capacity has dropped below demand, so inbound flights are given controlled departure times and wait at their origin gate rather than in a holding pattern. This is why a flight can be delayed for weather at an airport a thousand miles away under a clear sky.
- Departure and arrival delays
- A general advisory that flights are running late at that airport, with the current range and whether it is getting better or worse. Less severe than the two above and far more common.
- Closure
- The airport is not accepting traffic. Most closure notices the FAA publishes restrict only unscheduled private aircraft and do not affect airline flights at all; those are filtered out here rather than shown with a caveat. Recurring overnight maintenance windows are listed separately for the same reason.
Honesty
What this page cannot do
None of this is about your flight. An airport with no advisory can still be running your particular departure two hours late for a reason local to that aircraft, and an airport under a ground delay programme still operates most of its schedule.
The feed is read every few minutes and the age of the last successful read is printed above. If that age passes about twenty-five minutes the page shows nothing rather than presenting stale conditions as current, because a status panel that is quietly out of date is worse than no panel.
The historical figures elsewhere on this site are the better guide to whether a route is usually reliable. This page only tells you about today. Data through May 2026 covers the rest.
Source: the FAA's National Airspace System status feed, the same federal source family as the DOT on-time filings behind every other page here. Full provenance is on the data sources page.