{"id":474954,"date":"2026-10-23T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474954\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:54:08","slug":"ground-delay-issued-at-austin-airport-amid-busy-u-s-grand-prix-texas-football-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474954\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground delay issued at Austin airport amid busy U.S. Grand Prix, Texas football weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A ground delay is in effect at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Friday, with arriving flights experiencing average delays of approximately 75 minutes, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fly.faa.gov\/adv\/adv_otherdis?advn=46&amp;adv_date=10232026&amp;facId=AUS&amp;title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20046%20AUS\/ZHU%2010\/23\/2026%20CDM%20GROUND%20DELAY%20PROGRAM&amp;titleDate=10\/23\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA issued the ground delay program due to special events, affecting flights headed to Austin from airports across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apple-ceo-visits-austin-elementary-school-as-students-code-robots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Apple CEO visits Austin elementary school as students code robots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The delay program began at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23, and is scheduled to remain in effect until 9:29 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The delays come as Austin prepares for a busy weekend with the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas and Saturday&#8217;s Texas Longhorns football game against Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA has also implemented special air traffic procedures for the Grand Prix weekend due to an anticipated increase in aircraft operating in the Austin area. Those procedures include restrictions on general aviation aircraft at Austin-Bergstrom, although regularly scheduled commercial airline flights are not subject to those restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials say Monday could be the busiest single day in Austin-Bergstrom&#8217;s history as visitors depart following the weekend&#8217;s major events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A ground delay is in effect at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Friday, with arriving flights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-474954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474954","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=474954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}