{"id":97056,"date":"2025-12-27T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97056\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:09:09","slug":"post-christmas-travel-chaos-multiple-u-s-airports-hit-by-widespread-delays-over-500-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97056\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Christmas travel chaos: Multiple U.S. airports hit by widespread delays, over 500 in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mq1l4pzr1p1b4vbt.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando airport flight delays after Christmas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Post-holiday travel turned into a waiting game for thousands on Thursday as Orlando International Airport (MCO) recorded over 500 delays and 60 cancellations by late afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to data from FlightAware, multiple airports nationwide faced multiple delays the day after Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">By 5 p.m., Orlando International Airport had 510 delays and 66 cancellations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shopping-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">MCO had many flight delays and cancellations the day after Christmas.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Many travelers faced delays or cancellations at airports this holiday season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Those flying out of Orlando International Airport (MCO) saw significant delays \u2013 keeping some at the airport all day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Flyer Jacqeueline Taylor told FOX 35 her flight was delayed to 5 p.m., then to 7 p.m., and back to 6 p.m. Her departure time jumped around all day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Evening flights to Sacremento, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle and St. Louis \u2013 to name a few \u2013 were delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shopping-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Airports nationwide experienced flight delays on Dec. 26, 2025. (Source: FlightAware) <\/p>\n<p>  Why are airports experiencing delays?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Flight delays could be due to the weather. Though Central Florida is experiencing a warm Christmas, with temperatures in the 80s, other cities are bracing for winter storms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FlightAware&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/miserymap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Misery Map<\/a>&#8221; showed significant delays in New York City, Washington D.C. and Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered by FOX 35&#8217;s Laryssa Leone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Post-holiday travel turned into a waiting game for thousands on Thursday as Orlando International Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-97056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97056","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=97056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}