{"id":26309,"date":"2025-11-06T04:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:16:18","slug":"pittsburgh-international-airport-not-among-air-traffic-reductions-announced-by-faa-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26309\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh International Airport not among air traffic reductions announced by FAA Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 \u201chigh-volume\u201d markets beginning Friday morning, leaving Pittsburghers to wonder what that means for Pittsburgh International Airport. WATCH PREVIOUS VIDEO IN PLAYFINDER ABOVE  In a list obtained exclusively by ABC News, the following airports will see cuts in air traffic by the end of the week: 1 ANC Anchorage International2 ATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International3 BOS Boston Logan International4 BWI Baltimore\/Washington International5 CLT Charlotte Douglas International6 CVG Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International7 DAL Dallas Love8 DCA Ronald Reagan Washington National9 DEN Denver International10 DFW Dallas\/Fort Worth International11 DTW Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County12 EWR Newark Liberty International13 FLL Fort Lauderdale\/Hollywood International14 HNL Honolulu International15 HOU Houston Hobby16 IAD Washington Dulles International17 IAH George Bush Houston Intercontinental18 IND Indianapolis International19 JFK New York John F Kennedy International20 LAS Las Vegas McCarran International21 LAX Los Angeles International22 LGA New York LaGuardia23 MCO Orlando International24 MDW Chicago Midway25 MEM Memphis International26 MIA Miami International27 MSP Minneapolis\/St Paul International28 OAK Oakland International29 ONT Ontario International30 ORD Chicago O`Hare International31 PDX Portland International32 PHL Philadelphia International33 PHX Phoenix Sky Harbor International34 SAN San Diego International35 SDF Louisville International36 SEA Seattle\/Tacoma International37 SFO San Francisco International38 SLC Salt Lake City International39 TEB Teterboro40 TPA Tampa InternationalAs of Wednesday night, Pittsburgh International Airport is not among those to see a reduction in air traffic. The FAA says the reduction will help maintain safety during the ongoing government shutdown. Most controllers have continued to work mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has said. That leaves little time for a side job to help cover bills, mortgage payments, and other expenses unless controllers call out.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 \u201chigh-volume\u201d markets beginning Friday morning, leaving Pittsburghers to wonder what that means for Pittsburgh International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH PREVIOUS VIDEO IN PLAYFINDER ABOVE <\/p>\n<p> In a list obtained e<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/flight-capacity-reduced-10-40-major-airports-faa\/story?id=127235525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">xclusively by ABC News<\/a>, the following airports will see cuts in air traffic by the end of the week: <\/p>\n<p>1 ANC Anchorage International<br \/>2 ATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International<br \/>3 BOS Boston Logan International<br \/>4 BWI Baltimore\/Washington International<br \/>5 CLT Charlotte Douglas International<br \/>6 CVG Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International<br \/>7 DAL Dallas Love<br \/>8 DCA Ronald Reagan Washington National<br \/>9 DEN Denver International<br \/>10 DFW Dallas\/Fort Worth International<br \/>11 DTW Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County<br \/>12 EWR Newark Liberty International<br \/>13 FLL Fort Lauderdale\/Hollywood International<br \/>14 HNL Honolulu International<br \/>15 HOU Houston Hobby<br \/>16 IAD Washington Dulles International<br \/>17 IAH George Bush Houston Intercontinental<br \/>18 IND Indianapolis International<br \/>19 JFK New York John F Kennedy International<br \/>20 LAS Las Vegas McCarran International<br \/>21 LAX Los Angeles International<br \/>22 LGA New York LaGuardia<br \/>23 MCO Orlando International<br \/>24 MDW Chicago Midway<br \/>25 MEM Memphis International<br \/>26 MIA Miami International<br \/>27 MSP Minneapolis\/St Paul International<br \/>28 OAK Oakland International<br \/>29 ONT Ontario International<br \/>30 ORD Chicago O`Hare International<br \/>31 PDX Portland International<br \/>32 PHL Philadelphia International<br \/>33 PHX Phoenix Sky Harbor International<br \/>34 SAN San Diego International<br \/>35 SDF Louisville International<br \/>36 SEA Seattle\/Tacoma International<br \/>37 SFO San Francisco International<br \/>38 SLC Salt Lake City International<br \/>39 TEB Teterboro<br \/>40 TPA Tampa International<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday night, Pittsburgh International Airport is not among those to see a reduction in air traffic. <\/p>\n<p>The FAA says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/faa-reduces-air-traffic-government-shutdown\/69267240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reduction will help maintain safety during the ongoing government shutdown<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Most controllers have continued to work mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has said. That leaves little time for a side job to help cover bills, mortgage payments, and other expenses unless controllers call out.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a target=\"_blank\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 \u201chigh-volume\u201d markets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6780,17152,4329,17154,4875,17158,17157,17153,17156,17159,73,75,6846,74,10362,17155,2583,5865],"class_list":["post-26309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abc-news","tag-air-traffic-reduction","tag-day","tag-faa-wednesday","tag-list","tag-mandatory-overtime","tag-mortgage-payment","tag-most-controller","tag-ongoing-government-shutdown","tag-other-expense","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-reduction","tag-watch-previous-video","tag-wednesday","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}