{"id":312477,"date":"2025-11-06T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-slash-flight-capacity-40-high-volume-airports-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:39:20","slug":"faa-slashes-flight-capacity-by-10-at-40-high-volume-airports-amid-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=312477","title":{"rendered":"FAA Slashes Flight Capacity By 10% At 40 \u201cHigh-Volume\u201d Airports Amid Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> decided drastic measures were needed to ensure resilience in the national airline system, and they took steps to shave 10% of all air traffic across the top 40 high-volume US markets. This comes at a time when air traffic controllers are showing signs of strain due to the ongoing government shutdown, which has crippled airports, limited flight operations, and seen <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airport-security\/\" >TSA checkpoint lines<\/a> trailing out the door. The 10% of flights affected are expected to impact thousands of travelers across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprecedented Flight Cuts: The FAA&#8217;s Desperate Measure<\/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":[396,476,420,643,536,1777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-faa","category-tsa","category-united-airlines","category-us-department-of-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312477","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=312477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312507,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312477\/revisions\/312507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}