{"id":1610,"date":"2025-11-09T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:56:01","slug":"flight-cancellations-mount-as-government-shutdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/flight-cancellations-mount-as-government-shutdown-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight cancellations mount as government shutdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight cancellations have mounted as the government shutdown stretches into its second month, causing headaches for travelers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 flights on Sunday \u201cwithin, into, or out of\u201d the country had been delayed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to flight-tracking<\/a> website FlightAware. The number of cancellations for flights \u201cwithin, into, or out of\u201d the country topped 2,200, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>Airports including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport and New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport saw delays in the hundreds Sunday, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats have been locked in the shutdown fight for more than a month, battling it out over health care. But there has been some recent movement. As many as 10 Democratic senators are expected to vote for a bill to reopen the government as soon as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5597679-senate-funding-measure-shutdown-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday evening or early Monday<\/a> morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that \u201c15 to 20\u201d air traffic controllers <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5597325-duffy-air-traffic-controllers-retiring-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were retiring per day during<\/a> the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I\u2019m now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring,\u201d Duffy said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cSo, it\u2019s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this is going to live on in air travel, well beyond the time frame that this government opens back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duffy also said on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had offered air traffic controllers from reserves amid a shortage during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a text from the secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, yesterday, who\u2019s made an offer that he has air traffic controllers in the reserves, if we could deploy them \u2014 and I don\u2019t know that we can \u2014 we got to see what airspaces they worked in,\u201d Duffy told anchor Shannon Bream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight cancellations have mounted as the government shutdown stretches into its second month, causing headaches for travelers nationwide. ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}