User blog comment:Noramehablia/did fairy tail finished airing??/@comment-84.151.157.93-20170331071903/@comment-7418318-20170331075159

What? Why would there be another hiatus if they ever restart it?

The manga is in it's final arc. At most I'd expect it to go on for maybe a year, but likely less.

And since they didn't even announce that they are restarting the anime, that means at the earliest it will start in a year. Unless they super-secretly are working at it right now and want to surprise everyone with an announcement very shortly before the airing (yeah... fat chance of that) the anime wouldn't even start to air new episodes until after the manga ended.