Posted on 11/05/2025 3:05:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Travel chaos has hit across the US on Wednesday evening as staffing shortages from the ongoing government shutdown have triggered major flight delays.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said at least 17 airports, from San Francisco to Chicago and New York City, could experience delays of up to seven hours lasting into early Thursday.
The average wait time is expected to be around 2 hours and 20 minutes.
The affected include Newark (EWR), JFK, LaGuardia (LGA), Los Angeles (LAX), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago O’Hare (ORD), Miami (MIA), Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Houston (IAH, HOU) and Washington DC area (DCA, IAD, BWI).
San Francisco (SFO), Boston (BOS), Seattle (SEA), Denver (DEN), Orlando (MCO) and Salt Lake City (SLC) were also noted in the FAA alert.
To manage the heavy traffic with fewer controllers, the FAA has implemented a major airspace flow program, a system that controls and spaces out flights when air traffic capacity is limited.
The program affects all flights in the airspace above much of the US, from the ground up to 60,000 feet, meaning both arrivals and departures will be impacted.
The disruptions hit after US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that he would order a 10 percent reduction in scheduled air traffic at 40 major airports starting Friday unless a deal to end the federal government shutdown is reached.
The FAA warned that the current delays could linger until at least 12:59am ET on Thursday.
The agency also highlighted EWR as seeing some of the longest wait times.
Flights heading to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are also facing average delays of about three hours and 15 minutes due to unspecified causes, likely linked to nationwide...
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Just curious…….are US federal planes/helicoopters for Senators, Congressmen, etc. grounded? If not, they should be, that’s as non-essential as can be. Walking isn’t crowded………..
I hope RAT politicians can’t get flights home from D.C.
Flying was already a nightmare.
Fire the air traffic controllers who called in sick without a valid doctor’s note and bring in the military just like Reagan did during their strike. .That will bring them back to work quickly.
I hope RAT politicians can’t get flights home from D.C.
Awww...too bad. What RATS and Republicans do in Congress, affects American citizens more than a shutdown does them. If their lives are a little disrupted, or they have to change their plans for a couple of weeks, too freaking bad. I don't feel sorry for any of them.
Yeah fire people for refusing to work without pay, that will show them to refuse involuntary servitude, comrade!
Yeah right! They are going to sit on their ass’s at home and still get paid. That needs to stop. Stay home! No pay.
They are getting paid, just delayed. F them. I never saw any sympathy for all the workers and businesses that closed due to covid. Actually, I saw some gloating on Facebook from fed workers because they still had their jobs. Fire them , they can work at McDonalds with no cushy fed pensions the rest of the public doesn’t have. They can easily get no interest loans. Unlike the poor people who lost their jobs and business and got nothing.Fed workers are no special than anyone else. Fire the “sick” workers.
Headline: Republicans attack! 40 mini-king judges will order Trump to bow by tomorrow, and do as they command. But America's unelected royalty will not order Congress to remain in session until the government is funded.
Really, Sean Duffy should have left Miami and Dallas off the list as they voted for Trump. The other cities voted overwhelmingly for the Demonrat Destroyers. Hor-izontal Harris won 92.5% of the vote in Washington DC.
It's amazing how few Americans even notice the gigantic Fedzilla beast is unfed. It's obvious Fedzilla could be replaced by an AI app running on Trump's smart phone. The productive economy would grow 10%, and America's CO2 emissions decline 25%.
but think of all the carbon emissions and global warming being prevented!
I keep seeing that same picture of Terminal E in Houston IAH. I track security wait times on the Houston Airports app and Facebook postings. Most wait times a 15-20 minutes even at 11am.
This is hype.
EC
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