Posted on 11/09/2025 9:41:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,700 flights on Sunday as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that air traffic across the nation would “slow to a trickle” if the federal government shutdown lingered into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season.
The slowdown at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports began to cause more widespread disruptions in its third day. The FAA last week ordered flight cuts at the nation’s busiest airports as some air traffic controllers, who have gone unpaid for nearly a month, have stopped showing up for work.
In addition, nearly 10,000 flight delays were reported on Sunday alone, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks air travel disruptions. More than 1,000 flights were canceled Friday, and more than 1,500 on Saturday.
The FAA reductions started Friday at 4% and were set to increase to 10% by Nov. 14. They are in effect from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time and will impact all commercial airlines.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta stood to have the most cancellations Sunday, followed by Chicago O’Hare International, where wintry weather threatened. In Georgia, weather could also be a factor, with the National Weather Service office in Atlanta warning of widespread freezing conditions through Tuesday.
Traveler Kyra March finally arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson on Sunday after a series of postponements the day before.
“I was coming from Tampa and that flight got delayed, delayed, delayed. Then it was canceled and then rebooked. And so I had to stay at a hotel and then came back this morning,” she said.
The FAA said staffing shortages at Newark and LaGuardia Airport in New York were leading to average departure delays of about 75 minutes.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Michigan was mostly empty Sunday morning, with minimal wait times at security checkpoints...
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Aww. Sorry AP d heads. Shut down is over.
Ten Patriotic Democrats saved Thanksgiving.
/s
It’s over!
Let the bells ring.
Discovered: Dems of today have developed a very high threshold for other people’s pain and suffering.
Witness all the run down blue cities full of crime and unvetted invaders. Chicago, San Francisco and New York are but a few. Democrats would have allowed the Airports to go through difficult and unnecessary hardship during the holiday season, just to try making Trump look bad.
Last two days of flying has been hell.
Not even over yet.
Destination New Haven, CT
From Tampa
On the ground 3 am in Boston
Was a non stop
Saturday flight delayed 6 hours, then canceled
Two hours on hold to rebook
Sunday rebook flight ran into hours of delay
Then fog
And avelo dumped all passengers at Logan, which they do not service.
Pilots hit their hour limit
Passengers abandoned at 3 am
Oh, wow. Sounds like the plot of a horror movie.
It’s a wonder there haven’t been riots and wild meltdowns.
At train station in NH right now, saw Providence, and the other New one, new london
Paging John Candy
I think that there was an overall strategy in the timing in all this. President Trump’s budget was due to kick in on Oct 1. The dims stalled that and kept it stalled as long as they could. Now they will slowly ease off on their demands to get flights back to normal by Thanksgiving. When that happens, they and their media will crow that the dimrats saved Thanksgiving from the evil Republicans.
Seems to be that working plan here.
No, it isn't.
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