NYC Flight Departures Resume After Nationwide Outage

QUEENS — Flights at LaGuardia and JFK airports resumed Wednesday morning — albeit with hundreds of delays — after a nationwide Federal Aviation Administration outage was fixed, officials said.

The FAA announced the system failure about 8 a.m., leading to a ground stop for all inbound and outbound flights across the U.S.

The pause ended roughly an hour later, and JFK Airport and LaGuardia Airport announced they resumed departures about 9 a.m.

But the effects likely will be felt for hours to come. More than 750 flights at New York City's three major airports were listed as "delayed" by FlightAware.

LaGuardia had 302 delayed flights and 79 cancelations, according to FlightAware.

Departure and arrival delays both averaged about 1.5 hours, and all inbound flights to the airport were held at their origin until Wednesday at 10 a.m., FlightAware data showed.

JFK Airport had 239 delayed flights and 10 cancelations, according to FlightAware. Departure delays average one hour and 20 minutes, and were increasing, as of 10 a.m., FlightAware reported.

And Newark Liberty International Airport had 210 delays and 51 cancelations, FlightAware data shows.

The power outage comes after a brutal winter storm led to thousands of flight delays and cancelations in December.