FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Long lines and frustration filled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) as delays and cancellations continued Monday.<\/p>\n
FLL, one of South Florida\u2019s busiest airports, is now among 40 airports nationwide reducing flights because of the government shutdown.<\/p>\n
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Travelers face delays at Fort Lauderdale airport<\/p>\n
Mary Chase had just returned from a Caribbean cruise celebrating her 80th birthday. She said she and 22 others in her group were delayed for hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all trying to fly out today and everyone has been affected by this delay,\u201d Chase said.<\/p>\n
According to FlightAware, nearly 200 flights were delayed in Fort Lauderdale and 33 flights were canceled.<\/p>\n
Among those stranded was Patricia Londono, who has been trying to get to Toronto since Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe waited about half an hour on the tarmac to then tell us the flight is no longer taking off,\u201d Londono said. \u201cThey kicked us out of the airplane, huge line up of people and they gave us no answers, nothing, no hotel, no compensation, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many travelers said the lack of communication from airlines has added to the chaos.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t know our flight was rebooked last night or about 3 in the morning,\u201d said Londono. \u201cThey told us our flight was rebooked and now our flight delayed until 4:30.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration is calling for a 10% reduction in flights by Friday. Even if the government shutdown is resolved this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said disruptions could continue into the busy holiday travel season.<\/p>\n
On Monday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that \u201cair traffic controllers must get back to work, now.\u201d He added that those who don\u2019t could have their pay \u201csubstantially docked.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the shutdown debate continues, travelers are calling for an end to what they describe as chaos in the skies.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody should have to go through this\u2014this is just not organized, lack of communication, they\u2019re not giving anybody any answers,\u201d Donna Phillips said.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re traveling, check with your airline for the most up-to-date flight information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Long lines and frustration filled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) as delays and cancellations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19929,19930,249,251,250,19931],"class_list":{"0":"post-41845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county-headlines","9":"tag-broward-county-news","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-wptv-broward-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41845","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=41845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}