{"id":651776,"date":"2025-11-07T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651776"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:12:27","slug":"explained-us-shutdown-crisis-hits-the-skies-as-40-major-airports-prepare-to-cut-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explained-us-shutdown-crisis-hits-the-skies-as-40-major-airports-prepare-to-cut-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: US shutdown crisis hits the skies as 40 major airports prepare to cut flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel in the US is on the brink of major disruption as the government shutdown enters record-breaking territory. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned that up to 4,000 domestic flights per day could be cut at around 40 of the country\u2019s busiest airports if the political impasse continues, citing severe staffing strain on unpaid air traffic controllers. The move would represent one of the most significant reductions to US air travel outside of extreme weather or national emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Why the cuts are happening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel in the US is on the brink of major disruption as the government shutdown enters record-breaking territory. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned that up to 4,000 domestic flights per day could be cut at around 40 of the country\u2019s busiest airports if the political impasse continues, citing severe staffing strain on unpaid air traffic controllers. The move would represent one of the most significant reductions to US air travel outside of extreme weather or national emergencies. Why the cuts are happening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}