{"id":27983,"date":"2025-11-07T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27983\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:31:09","slug":"phl-passengers-react-to-flight-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27983\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL passengers react to flight cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Air travelers passing through Philadelphia International Airport are beginning to feel the effects of a nationwide staffing crisis that has now reached the skies. As the federal government shutdown enters its fifth week, the Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines to reduce scheduled flights by up to 10% at <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-international-airport-newark-flight-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 of the country\u2019s busiest airports<\/a> \u2014 including Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>By early Friday morning, more than two dozen flights from Philadelphia had been canceled, according to FlightAware, and many others were delayed as carriers began scaling back their operations. More than 40 flights out of Newark Liberty airport were canceled with another 100 delayed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Passengers whose flights were still scheduled expressed frustration and concern over whether their return flights would stay on schedule to bring them back.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely am a little concerned that it won\u2019t be there,\u201d said Eric Ashenfelter, a Philadelphia resident who was headed to Detroit with his girlfriend for a family gathering. \u201cI mean, at least luckily for our case, we have the option to drive back if necessary, but it is a concern. I wasn\u2019t even sure if this one would be here still.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia resident Jenny Frankel, who was on her way to Orlando with her son, expressed similar frustration and said she has the same \u201cplan B.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we couldn\u2019t book another flight, we would probably go to a rental car and drive back, which would be a 14-hour drive,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Frankel added they would just \u201croll with\u201d whatever happened.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1014,69,71,1013,70,16618],"class_list":["post-27983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-government-shutdown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27983","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=27983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}