{"id":199385,"date":"2026-03-20T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199385\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:41:27","slug":"traveling-woes-continue-at-south-florida-airports-amid-spring-break-partial-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199385\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling woes continue at South Florida airports amid spring break, partial government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 12:32 PM<\/p>\n<p>Long lines still at Fort Lauderdale airport amid partial government shutdown  Friday marks another busy day of travel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Friday marks another busy day of travel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At times, a Local 10 crew there saw hundreds of people waiting at ticketing counters and waiting to go through TSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Outside the airport, long lines of vehicles could be seen near both the arrival and departure areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Airports around the country are warning travelers that they could see worsening airport wait times Friday as the partial government shutdown drags on and TSA workers go without pay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Workers recently missed their first full paycheck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 talked with travelers who got off a cruise and came to FLL around six hours early. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said they can\u2019t get on their flights yet, but they\u2019re ready to be home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cClutter, tons of people, thousands of people. Everyone is getting impatient, waiting,\u201d Quentin Russo said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I finally get home, I\u2019m probably just going to lay in my bed, relax,\u201d Kameron Brooks said. \u201cI don\u2019t want anyone to disturb me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials at Miami International Airport are urging people to arrive three hours before their flights as spring break hits during this partial government shutdown. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 12:32 PM Long lines still at Fort Lauderdale airport amid partial government shutdown Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-199385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199385","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=199385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}