Travel experts say even if the government reopened soon, it may still affect Thanksgiving holiday travel.<\/p>\n
Since Friday, there have been more than 30,000 delays and 7,000 flight cancellations across the country.<\/p>\n
South Florida airports are facing major disruptions with widespread delays and cancellations due to the government shutdown. Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood are among the 40 busiest airports where the FAA has ordered airlines to cut flights, leaving travelers stranded and frustrated.<\/p>\n
This comes as air traffic controllers call out sick because of the government shutdown and the FAA requires airlines to scale back flights at 40 major airports.<\/p>\n
“We are in peak travel chaos,” said Zach Griff, a travel expert.<\/p>\n
Travelers left stranded without support\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For travelers, especially this is tough because you’re pretty much on your own for something if you are stuck in an airport or your flight’s been canceled for a few days,” said Griff.<\/p>\n
Griff says even though you may have trip insurance, many exclude protection for a government shutdown.<\/p>\n
“What’s unfortunate about that whether you have to get a hotel, meals, Uber’s most cases you will be on your own for the accommodating obviously frustrating,” said Griff.<\/p>\n
Ripple effects may stretch into Thanksgiving\u00a0<\/p>\n
Griff predicts even if the government reopens soon, the ripple effects may still be felt into Thanksgiving holiday travel. He is telling flyers to be prepared.<\/p>\n
“The problem is because it’s Thanksgiving they’re gonna be so many seats are sold and so finding a replacement seat if your flight is canceled or delayed and you need to get your destination, it’s gonna be really hard. So if you have faced a delay or potentially worried about one one of the first things I recommend before you even face it is get a refundable backup ticket,” said Griff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel experts say even if the government reopened soon, it may still affect Thanksgiving holiday travel. Since Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,123,807],"class_list":["post-43173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173","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=43173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}