"United, Southwest and Delta airlines began cancelling flights for Friday in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive that will see reductions in flights at 40 major airports from Friday to help address air traffic controller shortage safety concerns as a result of the government shutdown."

~ Edward Helmore

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #AirTravel #flights #airlines #airports
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/us-40-airports-traffic-reduced

“Today airlines began to cancel hundreds of flights. The Federal Aviation Administration said that reductions will begin at 4% on Friday and go up until they hit 10% on November 14.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #AirTravel #flights #airlines #airports
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-6-2025

I think this story maybe missing one very big reason #Europeans don't want to visit the #usa at the moment.

Of course there is some resentment, but there's a bigger portion of concern I think.

We don't feel as safe going through us airports as we used to.

I don't want to be treated like a suspect when I travel. In fact I won't put up with that.

#America just isn't important enough to me to justify that treatment.

https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/08/airports-feel-like-ghost-towns-us-tourism-reels-as-european-boycott-slashes-visitor-numbers-and-drains-billions-from-the-economy/

#tourism #travel #Airports #EU #geopolitics

"On his second day in office, as part of his careless-or-intentional destruction of the institutions that have made the United States strong and safe, Donald Trump disbanded a group called the Aviation Security Advisory Committee."

~ James Fallows

#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/it-had-been-16-years-since-a-fatal