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Flight delays continued astatine U.S. airports amid aerial postulation controller shortages arsenic the authorities shutdown entered its 2nd month, with Newark airdrome successful New Jersey experiencing delays of 2 to 3 hours.
New York City's Emergency Management bureau said connected X connected Sunday (November 2, 2025) that Newark delays often ripple retired to the region's different airports.
Travelers flying to, from oregon done New York “should expect docket changes, gross holds, and missed connections. Anyone flying contiguous should cheque formation presumption earlier heading to the airdrome and expect longer waits,” the societal media station added.
George Bush Intercontinental Airport successful Houston, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O'Hare were besides seeing dozens of delays and 1 oregon 2 cancellations, on with large airports successful San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Miami, according to FlightAware.
As of Sunday evening, FlightAware said determination were 4,295 delays and 557 cancellations of flights within, into oregon retired of the US, not each related to controller shortages. In July, earlier the shutdown, astir 69% of flights were connected clip and 2.5% were cancelled.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been informing that travellers volition commencement to spot much formation disruptions the longer controllers spell without a paycheck.
“We enactment overtime to marque definite the strategy is safe. And we volition dilatory postulation down, you'll spot delays, we'll person flights cancelled to marque definite the strategy is safe,” Duffy said connected Sunday connected CBS'S “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” He besides said helium does not program to occurrence aerial postulation controllers who don't amusement up for work.
“Again erstwhile they're making decisions to provender their families, I'm not going to occurrence aerial postulation controllers,” Duffy said. “They request support, they request money, they request a paycheck. They don't request to beryllium fired.” Earlier successful October, Duffy had warned aerial postulation controllers who had called successful sick alternatively of moving without a paycheck during the shutdown risked being fired. Even a tiny fig of controllers not showing up for enactment is causing problems due to the fact that the FAA has a captious shortage of them.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday connected X that astir 13,000 aerial postulation controllers person been moving without wage for weeks.
Staffing shortages tin hap some successful determination power centres that negociate aggregate airports and successful idiosyncratic airdrome towers, but they don't ever pb to formation disruptions.
According to aviation analytics steadfast Cirium, formation information showed beardown on-time show astatine astir large US airports for the period of October contempt isolated staffing problems passim the month.
Before the shutdown, the FAA was already dealing with a long-standing shortage of astir 3,000 aerial postulation controllers.
