{"id":171122,"date":"2025-11-08T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-airlines-cut-flights-cancellations-mount-as-government-shutdown-disrupts-travel-latest-on-impact-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:09:06","slug":"live-updates-airlines-cut-flights-cancellations-mount-as-government-shutdown-disrupts-travel-latest-on-impact-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-airlines-cut-flights-cancellations-mount-as-government-shutdown-disrupts-travel-latest-on-impact-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Airlines cut flights, cancellations mount as government shutdown disrupts travel \u2014 latest on impact – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FAA-mandated flight cancellations will ramp up to 10% by Nov. 14.
<\/span>Travelers wait in line at a security checkpoint at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Nov. 7.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ronaldo Schemidt \/ AFP – Getty Images<\/span>
A ground stop has been issued at New York’s LaGuardia Airport this morning due to staffing, according to the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>.
Over 170 flights traveling into and out of the airport have been delayed and almost 40 have been canceled, per FlightAware.com<\/a>.
Ground delays at airports across the U.S. are persisting today due to staffing issues.
Departures to Newark Liberty International Airport are delayed by over two hours, while Charlotte Douglas International Airport has an over one hour delay, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Departures from John F. Kennedy International Airport are delayed about 45 minutes, while Miami International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport all have 15 minute delays.
As of this morning, over 2,000 flights traveling to, from and within the U.S. have been delayed and 877 were canceled, according to FlightAware.com<\/a>.
In the lead is Charlotte Douglas International Airport with over 250 delays and 130 cancelations. Orlando International Airport follows closely behind with over 200 delays and 40 cancelations.
More than 1,000 flights were called off nationwide Friday \u2014 five times the number canceled Thursday, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions.
Reagan National Airport was hit the hardest with at least 18% of its arrivals \u2014 81 flights \u2014 canceled Friday. The major hubs of O\u2019Hare, Atlanta, Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth rounded out the top five airports for cancellations, but those airports only lost around 3% of their flights.
Not all the cancellations were due to the\u00a0FAA order,<\/a>\u00a0and both United and American airlines said they were able to quickly rebook most travelers.
The airlines focused their cuts on smaller regional routes to airports where they have multiple flights a day, helping\u00a0minimize the number of passengers<\/a>\u00a0impacted.
Delta Air Lines said it scratched roughly 170 flights Friday while American planned to cut 220 each day through Monday. Southwest Airlines cut about 120 flights Friday.
The FAA said the reductions impacting all commercial airlines are starting at 4% of flights at the busiest airports and will ramp up to 10% over the coming week.
\u201cI just don\u2019t want to be stranded at the airport sleeping on a bench,\u201d Michele Cuthbert, of Columbus, Ohio, said about an upcoming flight to Dallas. \u201cEveryone\u2019s paying the price for the politics that\u2019s going on. We\u2019re just collateral damage.\u201d
If the shutdown continues, there may be another knock-on effect ahead of the holidays.
Nearly half of all U.S. air freight is shipped in the bellies of passenger aircraft, so the disruption could raise costs for shipping goods, said Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice at Syracuse University.
\u201cAir travel is part of the infrastructure backbone of the American economy,\u201d said Greg Raiff, CEO of the Elevate Aviation Group consultancy. \u201cThis shutdown is going to impact everything from cargo aircraft to people getting to business meetings to tourists being able to travel.\u201d
Flying anywhere for the Thanksgiving holiday is likely to be tortuous for legions of travelers \u2014 even if\u00a0the government shutdown<\/a>\u00a0ends today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned today.
Hundreds of flights during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year could be affected by staffing shortages of air traffic controllers. The shortages have been exacerbated by the shutdown, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to implement unprecedented flight reductions.
And those staff shortages \u2014 at least for now \u2014 appear to be set in stone for Thanksgiving, Duffy said.
\u201cSo if the government opens on Day 1, will I see an immediate response from controllers? No, the union is telling me it\u2019s going to take time to get them all back in,\u201d Duffy told CNN today when asked if the flight reductions would spill into the holiday.
Read the full story here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The partial government shutdown is the longest shutdown in U.S. history, with air traffic controllers among those employees working without pay.
The record as the nation\u2019s longest was broken Wednesday<\/a>, on the 36th day of the shutdown that began on Oct. 1<\/a>.
Before that, the longest government shutdown<\/a> was a 35-day shutdown from Dec. 22, 2018, until Jan. 25, 2019. That stemmed from a fight over funding for President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall.
This shutdown is over health insurance subsidies on the Affordable Care Act market, which without action will expire at the end of the year and raise costs for consumers.
Senate Democrats want the subsidies and talks on other issues, and Republicans have refused to extend the subsidies as part of continuing to fund the government and are calling for a \u201cclean\u201d resolution.
NBC News<\/p>\n

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