Highest impact
Ground stop
Flights bound for the airport are held at their origin. Usually short, and usually the most disruptive per hour.
Live FAA data · Not a SMART feed
Airport status, sourced
Ground stops, ground delay programmes, arrival and departure delays, and closures — pulled from the FAA’s public NAS status feed. Every result carries the feed’s own update time and the moment we retrieved it.
Enter an airport to see current FAA airport-wide events. Nothing is guessed when the data is unavailable.
Not your flight. This is airport-level FAA information, not a flight status and not SMART output. Check with your airline for flight-specific updates. How this works →
Reading the feed
Four kinds of event, four different meanings
The FAA groups airport-wide disruptions into categories. They are not interchangeable, and the difference matters if you are deciding whether to leave for the airport.
Metered
Ground delay program
Departures are spaced out to match a reduced arrival rate. Delays are assigned before takeoff, on the ground.
In the air
Arrival & departure delays
Reported average and maximum delays, often with a direction and a trend. This is the FAA’s headline number.
Field closed
Airport closure
A closure notice, which may apply only to certain traffic — for example non-scheduled general aviation.
What the lookup does
We fetch the FAA feed server-side every 60 seconds, cache it, and filter it to the airport you ask for. If the FAA is unreachable we serve up to 15 minutes of cached data and label it as stale. If there is no cache, we say the data is unavailable — we never render an outage as “no delays”.
What it cannot tell you
The feed lists airports that currently have an event. A missing entry is not a guarantee of normal operations, and it is not a statement about your flight. Times are published in UTC and converted to your local time in the result; the original text is shown alongside.
Why no SMART output?
SMART’s recommendations are not published as data. Anyone offering a “live SMART feed” is showing
something else. Read the guide →
Source.
FAA National Airspace System status, public XML feed
nasstatus.faa.gov/api/airport-status-information. We request it directly; no third-party data
broker sits in between.
Quick answers
Airport status questions
Does “no event” mean my airport is running normally?
No. It means the FAA’s airport-level feed lists no active closure, ground stop, ground delay programme or reported delay for that airport at the time we retrieved it. Weather, runway work, crew and airline issues can delay a flight without appearing in this feed.
Is this the same data as the FAA website?
Yes — it is the FAA’s public NAS status feed, the same source behind the agency’s status displays. We do not edit the events, and we show the feed’s own update time so you can judge how fresh it is.
Why do the times not match my local clock?
The FAA publishes event times in UTC. We convert them to your device’s time zone and keep the original UTC text visible in each event, so you can check the conversion yourself.
Can I look up a delay for a specific flight?
No. This page is airport-level only, and SMART does not predict individual flights. Your airline is the only source for your flight’s status and any rebooking.