{"id":39868,"date":"2025-11-09T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39868\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:54:08","slug":"air-travel-issues-caused-by-government-shutdown-impacting-airports-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39868\/","title":{"rendered":"Air travel issues caused by government shutdown impacting airports in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Millions of air travelers are stuck as thousands of flights nationwide are grounded due to the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/09\/problemas-en-los-aeropuertos-del-sur-de-florida-por-el-cierre-del-gobierno-afectan-a-miles-de-viajeros\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/09\/problemas-en-los-aeropuertos-del-sur-de-florida-por-el-cierre-del-gobierno-afectan-a-miles-de-viajeros\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Airports in South Florida are no exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, as well as Miami International Airport, are both experiencing high delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At last check Sunday morning, MIA has 45 flight delays and Fort Lauderdale stood at 33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As far as cancelations go, 24 flights are not taking off from Miami today and a whopping 31 will stay on the ground in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This has left travelers stranded, scrambling, and frustrated, like the Maynards, who are trying to get back to Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They were supposed to fly out Saturday at 4 p.m. and got to MIA at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That flight never took off, and they had to sleep at the airport because all of the hotels nearby are booked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m tired,\u201d said Debra Manyard. \u201cAfter three weeks being away, it\u2019s time to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, they just want to get home and are hopeful their direct flight that\u2019s scheduled for Sunday evening will get them there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA long night,\u201d added Brian Manyard. \u201cWe\u2019re crossing our fingers. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Walter Murphy\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/cdae0d5e-2cd6-4aec-91f9-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Walter Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Walter Murphy is a 2x Emmy nominated journalist who joined Local 10 News in July 2025. He is excited to bring his investigative drive and on-the-ground experience to South Florida audiences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM Updated:\u00a0November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM MIAMI \u2014 Millions of air travelers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-39868","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\/39868","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=39868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}