{"id":282301,"date":"2025-11-10T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282301\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:06:09","slug":"more-than-half-of-flights-disrupted-from-ewr-lga-dtw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282301\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half Of Flights Disrupted From EWR, LGA, DTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p>Over 7,700 flights were delayed and nearly 2,300 canceled in the United States on Sunday as the government shutdown\u2019s impact on air travel grows more significant ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of flights out of major airports were delayed Sunday, including in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>AFP via Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p>The largest number of outright cancellations happened at Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as of Sunday afternoon, which saw 323 flights delayed and 192 flights canceled by shortly before 5 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Delays also throttled traffic originating at New York City\u2019s regional airports, with 299 at LaGuardia (56% of flights), 236 delays at Newark (40% of flights) and 204 at John F. Kennedy (31% of flights).<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s airports also saw significant delays and cancellations\u2014over 500 flights originating at O\u2019Hare were delayed by Sunday afternoon, while 81 were delayed at Midway.<\/p>\n<p>Other airports with significant delays included Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (244 delays, or 52% of flights) and Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. (134 delays, or 30% of flights).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/09\/politics\/video\/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-air-travel-issues-government-shutdown-airports-delays-cancellations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/09\/politics\/video\/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-air-travel-issues-government-shutdown-airports-delays-cancellations\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/09\/politics\/video\/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-air-travel-issues-government-shutdown-airports-delays-cancellations\" aria-label=\"CNN\u2019s State of the Union\">CNN\u2019s State of the Union<\/a> on Sunday morning, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the delays were \u201conly going to get worse\u201d in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, one day after the federal government recorded 81 staffing triggers\u2014the highest on a single day during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Key Background<\/p>\n<p>Earlier last week, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoniopequenoiv\/2025\/11\/05\/faa-will-reduce-flights-this-week-due-to-shutdown-thousands-of-flights-could-reportedly-be-impacted\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoniopequenoiv\/2025\/11\/05\/faa-will-reduce-flights-this-week-due-to-shutdown-thousands-of-flights-could-reportedly-be-impacted\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoniopequenoiv\/2025\/11\/05\/faa-will-reduce-flights-this-week-due-to-shutdown-thousands-of-flights-could-reportedly-be-impacted\/\" aria-label=\"reduce traffic at major airports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reduce traffic at major airports<\/a> by 10% as the ongoing government shutdown forces air traffic controllers to go without paychecks. The traffic reductions began Friday with a 4% cut, and are set to expand until Nov. 14. Air traffic controllers are set to miss their second paycheck in a row on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Surprising Fact<\/p>\n<p>According to Duffy, 18 out of 22 air traffic controllers at Atlanta\u2019s airport failed to show up for work on Saturday. Duffy also warned in his CNN appearance that an alarming number of air traffic controllers were retiring as the shutdown dragged on. \u201cI used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cI&#8217;m now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring. So it&#8217;s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Over 7,700 flights were delayed and nearly 2,300 canceled in the United States on Sunday as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,15969,9292],"class_list":{"0":"post-282301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-flight-delays","10":"tag-government-shutdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301","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=282301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}