{"id":166759,"date":"2025-01-14T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-10-reasons-flight-delays\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:00:14","slug":"the-top-10-reasons-for-flight-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166759","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Reasons For Flight Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033274\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usdot-airline-delay-cancellation-report\/\" >many reasons why flights might be delayed<\/a><\/span>\u2014sometimes its the fault of the airline and at other times its completely outside of their control. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/topics\/airlines-and-airports\/understanding-reporting-causes-flight-delays-and-cancellations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Bureau of Transportation Statistics<\/a> (BTS) has five categories for why aircraft are late. These are Air Carrier, National Aviation System, Weather, Late-Arriving Aircraft, and Security (the categories for cancellation are the same minus the late-arriving aircraft category). Here are some of the top reasons why aircraft are             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204360\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delayed\/\"  >delayed<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons flights might be delayed (although the BTS only classifies these into five categories).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,402,14878,11609,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-news","category-airport-delay","category-flight-delays","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166760,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166759\/revisions\/166760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}