{"id":30993,"date":"2025-11-01T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:05:14","slug":"ground-stops-possible-at-houston-airports-this-weekend-with-limited-checkpoints-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30993\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground stops possible at Houston airports this weekend, with limited checkpoints, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the government shutdown<\/a> enters its 32nd day and the holiday season begins, airport officials in Houston have announced that several checkpoints at Bush Intercontinental will be closed this weekend due to a shortage of TSA workers.<\/p>\n

Officials have said only checkpoints in Terminals A and E are open and are urging travelers to arrive at the airports earlier than planned to make their flights. Officials said check-in times could take up to 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

As the government shutdown continues, some airport workers are expected to work without pay. However, experts at ABC told Eyewitness News that workers might not continue showing up for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Aviation experts warn public to be prepared for ground stops amid government shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC experts said that during shutdowns, we can see federal airport workers calling out, as some can no longer afford childcare, or others choose to take on a second job to bring in a paycheck.<\/p>\n

TSA agents aren’t the only employees who have been impacted by the shutdown, as air traffic controllers <\/a>are in the same boat.<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration has said it will restrict the number of planes arriving at and departing from some airports to ensure smaller staff can keep passengers safe.<\/p>\n

With fewer planes arriving, the FAA has also warned of ground stops at multiple airports, including Bush and Hobby, starting Saturday after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

In the last few weeks, both Hobby and Bush have experienced multiple ground stops, impacting hundreds of flights and passengers. According to officials, a ground stop occurs when traffic controllers slow incoming and outgoing flights in and out of the Houston area and surrounding cities.<\/p>\n

Officials are urging passengers to adjust as needed and be flexible if travel is impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the government shutdown enters its 32nd day and the holiday season begins, airport officials in Houston have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1859,20587,16660,20586,1857,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-30993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-air-traffic-controllers","tag-airport-officials","tag-airport-workers","tag-bush-intercontinental","tag-government-shutdown","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}