{"id":24485,"date":"2025-10-26T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24485\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:47:08","slug":"staffing-issues-trigger-temporary-ground-stop-at-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24485\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffing issues trigger temporary ground stop at LAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A staffing shortage at Los Angeles International Airport prompted a temporary ground stop affecting flights Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

The restriction began around 8:45 a.m. affecting departing flights for Oakland and was lifted at 10:30 a.m. with a possibility of being extended until 2 p.m., according to an FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center advisory. <\/p>\n

Even after the resumption of flights, travelers were instructed to check the status of their flights. <\/p>\n

The stoppage affected most of Southern California, leaving passengers experiencing flight delays of around 49 minutes, with some waiting up to 87 minutes, according to KTLA.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s press office<\/a> was quick to seize on news of the problems and goad President Trump\u2019s Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHell of a job, @SecDuffy,\u201d Newsom\u2019s office posted on X, sharing a news story about the LAX ground stop. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to see what you do with NASA.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal government shutdown<\/a>, now in its fifth week, has forced air traffic controllers to work without pay.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Burbank Airport\u2019s<\/a> air traffic control tower was temporarily unstaffed due to shortages earlier this month, with outgoing flights delayed an average of two hours and 31 minutes, and 12 flights were canceled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A staffing shortage at Los Angeles International Airport prompted a temporary ground stop affecting flights Sunday morning. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18926,2640,4046,4909,4194,48,52,51,1474,47,50,49,5463,100,3020,9908,18925,18923,18922,18921,18924],"class_list":["post-24485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-secduffy","tag-a-m","tag-california-gov-gavin-newsom","tag-flight","tag-job","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lax","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minute","tag-news","tag-president-trump","tag-press-office","tag-secretary","tag-staffing-issue","tag-staffing-shortage","tag-temporary-ground-stop","tag-transportation-sean-duffy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}