{"id":56211,"date":"2025-11-10T07:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-2-000-flights-canceled-across-u-s-as-federal-gov-t-shutdown-enters-day-40\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:32:56","slug":"over-2-000-flights-canceled-across-u-s-as-federal-gov-t-shutdown-enters-day-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-2-000-flights-canceled-across-u-s-as-federal-gov-t-shutdown-enters-day-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2,000 flights canceled across U.S. as federal gov&#8217;t shutdown enters Day 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s (FAA) mandated flight reduction policy took effect on Friday, the number of canceled flights surged from 202 on Thursday to 1,025 on Friday, and further to 1,566 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of air traffic controllers taking leave has risen since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, forcing many others to work overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA recently announced a 10 percent capacity reduction at 40 major airports across the country starting Friday, aiming to ease staffing pressures and reduce airspace safety risks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only going to get worse,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNN on Sunday. &#8220;I look to the two weeks before Thanksgiving. You&#8217;re going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CBS that if people are not traveling during Thanksgiving, &#8220;we really could be looking at a negative quarter for the fourth quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-97428\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp\" alt=\" The U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA recently announced a 10 percent capacity reduction at 40 major airports across the country starting Friday, aiming to ease staffing pressures and reduce airspace safety risks.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. federal government shutdown entered its 40th day on Sunday, more than 2,000 flights were canceled and over 8,000 delayed nationwide, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000097426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000097426,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/69113e7430b3f69113e7430b40176273778069113e7430b3d69113e7430b3e.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000097426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56211"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56211"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}