The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday morning that short-haul flights to San Francisco International Airport would be delayed due to staffing shortages amid the federal government shutdown. The delays happened on the same day airlines began to reduce their flight schedules to meet the agency’s new policy.
Flights to SFO within 1,000 nautical miles, which included all flights within California and as far as Colorado, were briefly suspended before resuming later in the morning with major delays. Aircraft were not allowed to depart to SFO because of a reported lack of air traffic controllers needed to safely direct them.
Airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said the delays would not affect transcontinental flights or international flights to SFO. Morning delays at the airport were averaging 35 minutes.
In the FAA’s announcement of the temporary suspension of flights, it estimated delays could average 60 minutes with up to two hours in some cases.
The ground stop occurred on the same day major airports, like SFO, were expected to see a reduction in flights after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, announced earlier this week that he would be directing airlines to cancel up to 10 percent of flights across 40 airports due to staffing issues during the ongoing government shutdown.
Information, courtesy of flight records website FlightAware (flightaware.com), showed 45 flights were canceled at SFO as of Friday morning. The majority of flights were associated with commuter airline SkyWest, which operates regional flights on behalf of several different airlines, and then followed by United Airlines. and then followed by United Airlines.
Travelers are suggested to check with their airlines through their respective websites, phone apps, and personnel at the airport for further information.
-Government-shutdownCall it what it is, schumer shutdown
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“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be,
know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility
very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,”
–House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D)
Republicans are digging their own graves deeper and deeper. People are fed up. The dems won every single election on Tuesday – almost 2 dozen state level seats lost by republicans. The longer this shutdown goes on and the more problems it causes is only increasing the odds they lose badly in the midterms next year.
The Democrats are what’s keeping it shut down. They’re holding the American people hostage while they think they’re gaining points. But they’re not major unions have called on the Dems to stop it. The Dems even voted against paychecks for federal employees as a standalone approval. So they’re not interested in solving the problem but rather making a scene..
And I would not call the victory of a socialist anti-Semitic being a victory for the Democrats.
You’re defending the party who is insisting on raising my health insurance by 400% by letting subsidies expire. The Democrats are fighting for those subsidies to remain in tact so I don’t have to choose between heath insurance or cutting expenses for my family somewhere somehow by over $1000 a month. So you can go somewhere else with the information Fox News brainwashed into you.
Republicans are not the ones raising your premiums. Obama and the Democrats built that feature into ObamaCare without any assistance from the Republicans.
Jessica, Fox News did not create the Schumer shutdown or Obamacare. Your party did that all by themselves. It’s your party that is insisting on hurting American citizens by not voting to open things up. Your party doesn’t care about anybody but themselves, just as long as they have leverage. But hey, why not blame Fox News?
I am not fed up, so don’t comment “everyone” is fed up.
Thank you to both ignorant sides!
Our flight out of Vegas has been cancelled
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas……….
The air traffic over the US is way too crowded this is the best thing that could have happened canceling flights now let’s just keep them all canceled keep available flights down 10 to 25% and it might be safe again to fly commercial.
I have to wonder, if only the Senate Democrats came to the table and voted to pass the CR would we be cancelling flights today?
The Democrats like to blame the Republican House, but if I recall correctly, it passed the house which moves it to the Senate. To pass the Senate, it needs 60 votes and considering there are less than 60 Republican Senators … umm, I think that means that some of the Democrats actually need to vote for the people and not along party lines.
And yet there are still people who cannot do that math or make that logical jump, thus they blame the Republicans for not coming to the table and voting.
According to the Forest Service its is the radical left. See below. I follow the science 😉
https://www.fs.usda.gov/