More delays reported at NY-area airports
LaGuardia and other NY-area airports continue to face delays. Credit: Newsday/Kendall Rodriguez
Travelers coming and going to Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports are facing further delays and cancellations as the federal shutdown enters its 41st day.
The cancellations and delays continued on Monday morning, just days after federal transportation officials implemented air traffic cuts in the country’s busiest airports to ease pressure on air traffic controllers who’ve been working under strain and without a paycheck since the shutdown began Oct. 1.
As of around 11 a.m., a combined 121 flights departing or arriving at LaGuardia had been canceled and another 114 were delayed, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. At Kennedy Airport, 79 incoming and outgoing flights were canceled and another 97 delayed. Neighboring Newark airport isn’t faring much better: The New Jersey airport was already experiencing 90 cancellations and another 107 delays, according to FlightAware.
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