As the partial government shutdown continues, airports across the U.S. and in South Florida are experiencing delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n
At Fort Lauderdale Hollywood-International Airport on Sunday, there were over 420 delays and 50 cancellations, while at Miami International Airport, there were 505 delays and 23 cancellations<\/p>\n
These flight interruptions are happening as spring breakers make their way home and as others make their plans to travel for St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n
There are also 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers and staff who are missing their paychecks due to the partial shutdown.<\/p>\n
Some TSA officers are calling out sick to take on a second job, and, officials said, there is the concern that this will just get worse as the shutdown lingers on.<\/p>\n
NBC6 spoke to travelers who waited in line for over two hours just to get into the building to check in.<\/p>\n
Others said their flights have been delayed three or four times<\/p>\n
“Oh, we couldn\u2019t even get dropped off, no cars could get in or anything,” a traveler said.<\/p>\n
“I was expecting a calmer situation, but lines wrapped around the whole airport,” a traveler said.<\/p>\n
If you do plan on traveling Sunday night, you should get to the airport early and check your flight status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the partial government shutdown continues, airports across the U.S. and in South Florida are experiencing delays and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11687,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-192816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-air-travel","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}