{"id":282207,"date":"2025-11-09T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282207\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:55:07","slug":"flight-delays-and-cancellations-mount-as-faa-cuts-to-air-traffic-enter-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282207\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight delays and cancellations mount as FAA cuts to air traffic enter third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\nFormer Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/new-hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_live-news_article_main-content_video_sununu-urges-air-traffic-controllers-to-stay-on-the-job-amid-shutdown_4_article-link_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Hampshire<\/a> Gov. Chris Sununu on Sunday made a plea to air traffic controllers to keep showing up to work amid the government shutdown, saying that the national airspace \u201creally needs\u201d them.\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu, who is now the CEO of Airlines for America, appeared on \u201cFox News Live\u201d to discuss how the ongoing government shutdown, now in its 40th day, has prompted flight delays and cancellations nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a controller and you\u2019re listening, we need you at work,\u201d he said, adding that \u201chopefully\u201d Congress \u201cdoes what they need to do\u201d to get the air traffic controllers paid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nSununu warned that air travel cancellations and delays may get \u201cexponentially worse\u201d as the week goes on, though encouraged Americans not to cancel their Thanksgiving travel plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep your plans, keep booking, by all means,\u201d he said. \u201cI do believe this is going to get resolved before Thanksgiving.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sununu added: \u201cBelieve it or not, even Capitol Hill, I believe, is listening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former governor further urged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_live-news_article_main-content_video_sununu-urges-air-traffic-controllers-to-stay-on-the-job-amid-shutdown_4_article-link_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lawmakers<\/a> of both parties to get the government open and \u201csay yes at the next vote.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at what\u2019s happening to your constituents,\u201d he said. \u201cLook at what&#8217;s happening to the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b Former Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Sunday made a plea to air traffic controllers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4,27304,88,829,2413,3,92,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-282207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-current-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-national-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}