1. Informational purpose
GroundStopNow publishes information about air traffic status. It is not an official source, not a flight planning service, and not suitable for operational, safety-critical or dispatch decisions. Always confirm with your airline and official FAA notices.
2. Data accuracy
Data is derived from public feeds and is provided "as is". Feeds can be delayed, incomplete, reworded or unavailable. We do not warrant accuracy, completeness, timeliness or fitness for a particular purpose. Event times reflect our own observation and can differ from FAA advisories by up to 60 seconds.
3. No professional advice
Compensation and refund content explains general rules. It is not legal advice and does not create a client relationship. Eligibility depends on your ticket, itinerary, the cause of the disruption and the applicable regulator's interpretation.
4. Acceptable use
- Do not scrape at a rate that degrades service. Use the API instead.
- Do not misrepresent the data as official FAA output.
- Do not remove attribution from the embeddable widget.
- Do not use the service to build a competing status product from our normalised feed.
5. API terms
Free keys are limited to 100 requests per day and to evaluation use. Paid plans are governed by a separate written agreement. We may revoke a key for abuse, for resale of the feed, or for failure to attribute.
6. Intellectual property
Site design, copy, normalised data and the event archive are owned by GroundStopNow. FAA data is public information; our normalisation, archive and presentation are not. You may quote short extracts with a link.
7. Third-party links
Links to airlines, government agencies and partners are provided for convenience. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or policies.
8. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, GroundStopNow is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, including missed flights, missed connections, lost revenue or wasted travel costs, arising from use of the site or reliance on its data.
9. Changes
We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page is the effective date. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.