{"id":373947,"date":"2025-11-12T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:44:19","slug":"flight-troubles-continue-across-nyc-as-shutdown-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373947\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight troubles continue across NYC as shutdown drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should\u2019ve been a short trip to Columbus, Ohio turned into a lengthy nightmare for Carlie Steen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we&#8217;re on the plane, buckled up, ready to go and the door wouldn&#8217;t shut. So, we had to get off, they had to get another plane. That was gonna take three or four hours. So, we got rerouted to LaGuardia. Now, we have to take a care from LaGuardia to JFK to get our car which is at JFK. So, it&#8217;s been a weekend,\u201d says Steen.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for her, there\u2019s no end in sight for these disruptions.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 6% of flights were canceled Tuesday at 40 major airports, including LaGuardia, JFK and Newark<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The cancellation rate is expected to rise to 10% by the end of the week<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tuesday marked a second missed payday for FAA employees and air traffic controllers<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Travelers are facing mounting costs, delays and uncertainty as the shutdown continues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Tuesday, 6% of flights were canceled at 40 major airports, including LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International and Newark. That number is expected to climb to 10% by the end of the week, regardless of how long the government shutdown lasts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to look at the data and make the best decisions possible to keep the traveling public safe. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done. When that data changes, we&#8217;ll start taking down from 6, maybe 4, 2 and get back to normal air travel,\u201d says Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday also marked the second missed payday for air traffic controllers and other FAA employees. They\u2019ve now gone 42 days without pay, forcing many to seek other jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Frequent fliers say the delays and cancellations are taking a financial toll.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was supposed to leave Sunday, Sunday morning so, this is the fourth time. The fourth time it&#8217;s been cancelled,\u201d says Zachary Gibson, who\u2019s trying to fly home to Arkansas. &#8220;Especially being on a budget, it&#8217;s kind of hard when you don&#8217;t expect to stay longer than you&#8217;re supposed to so that&#8217;s kind of hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another traveler at LaGuardia found out mid-interview that her flight to Charlotte, North Carolina for her brother\u2019s wedding was delayed. She even refrained from checking her bag in case it gets canceled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indian weddings, it&#8217;s four days long so we have a lot of religious ceremonies starting tomorrow so I hope I can make it home on time,\u201d said Mahathi Chaganti. &#8220;You are worried, you want to see family, it&#8217;s the holidays. A little anxious but we will prevail, hopefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flight cancellations at major airports are expected to climb to 8% by Thursday. It remains unclear how long it will take for air traffic controllers and other federal workers to receive back pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What should\u2019ve been a short trip to Columbus, Ohio turned into a lengthy nightmare for Carlie Steen. &#8220;Today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,38599,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,117759,52,26304,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-373947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-rebecca-greenberg","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-traffic-and-transit","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115537737484271971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}