* The Hill…
Many of the largest airports across the country will see a noticeable reduction in flight offerings starting Friday, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implements new steps to maintain air safety amid the ongoing government shutdown.
The preliminary list of 40 airports operating at reduced capacity, obtained by The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, is subject to change. The FAA is expected to announce the full list sometime later on Thursday.
The list, also obtained by The Washington Post, CBS News and ABC News, includes virtually all the major air travel hubs — from New York, to Los Angeles, to Washington, D.C., to Miami, to Chicago, to Dallas and many airports in between. […]
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford announced Wednesday that the agency was taking the extraordinary step of reducing flight capacity by 10 percent across 40 “high-traffic” areas in the country.
Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway are on the list of affected airports.
* NBC Chicago…
In a statement sent to NBC Chicago, the Chicago Department of Aviation said it is “monitoring the situation closely” as it awaits further details on potential impacts at Midway and O’Hare.
“Our team will continue coordinating with airline and federal partners to help minimize any disruptions,” the statement said.
O’Hare in particular has seen dozens of flights a day delayed due to staff shortages. As of 5:30 a.m. Thursday, the number of flights delayed at O’Hare was 22, with six cancelations.
* AP…
Passengers should start to be notified about cancellations Thursday. Airlines said they would try to minimize the impact on customers, some of whom will see weekend travel plans disrupted with little notice. […]
The cuts could affect as many as 1,800 flights, or upwards of 268,000 passengers, per day, according to an estimate by aviation analytics firm Cirium.
“I’m not aware in my 35-year history in the aviation market where we’ve had a situation where we’re taking these kinds of measures,” FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said Wednesday. “We’re in new territory in terms of government shutdowns.”
Air traffic controllers have been working unpaid since the shutdown began Oct. 1. Most work mandatory overtime six days a week, leaving little time for side jobs to help cover bills and other expenses unless they call out.
- New Day - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 11:20 am:
This will amp up the anger to 11 and should help force an end to this idiotic shutdown. I predict next week but in the meantime there will be a LOT of disruption and a ton of bad PR on this.
- Garfield Ridge Guy - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 11:21 am:
The GOP legislative majority is in the same position as the Democratic legislative majority during the Rauner years. Their hope is to stall and twist the knife, while making noises about how the minority needs to compromise. Hopefully the Dems learn the lesson from the ILGOP minority, and realizes that there is no advantage to coming to the table.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 11:38 am:
===Hopefully the Dems learn the lesson===
Yes, because they wouldn’t want to horrifically underperform in 2026 like they did on Tuesday.
/s
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 11:48 am:
Thanksgiving approaching a few weeks away. dialogue will heat up with concern about holidays
- I-55 Fanatic - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 11:53 am:
It seems to me that Ds and Rs on the hill have been engaged in mutually assured destruction for a couple weeks now. Something has got to give. The messaging on this is so muddy and partisan at this point, I think our last hope is bipartisan incentive to just make a deal and claim victory regardless of the details.
- Remember the Alamo II - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 12:28 pm:
=== The messaging on this is so muddy and partisan at this point, I think our last hope is bipartisan incentive to just make a deal and claim victory regardless of the details. ===
To be clear, all the Republicans need to do is include the previously implemented Obamacare subsidies. Even Republican legislators acknowledge that jacking up insurance premiums will get them destroyed at the ballot box. Instead they continue to spout misinformation and lies, but the public is catching on. Its a real head scratcher.
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 12:33 pm:
Now I’m wishing we still had Miegs Field.
/s
- Siualum - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 12:40 pm:
Probably oversimplification, but maybe agree to continue the Affordable Care Act subsidies and end the shutdown?
- Harrison - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 12:42 pm:
Republicans lost both New Jersey and Virginia by 5 points in the last Presidential election.
I wouldn’t assume the government shut down is helping Democrats win next year
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:04 pm:
The “great negotiator” is not so great. Someone once said that presidents have to lead and unite. This person now has the most shutdown days of any president. Instead of leading and uniting, there’s blaming, attacking and threatening.
- TheInvisibleMan - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:13 pm:
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This person now has the most shutdown days of any president.
–
He had that honor before now too. From the longest shutdown ever which took place in his last term.
The only new thing now is that he’s in first *and* second place, for longest shutdown.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:41 pm:
=== Yes, because they wouldn’t want to horrifically underperform in 2026 ===
One of the things I said during the Rauner Budget Impasse was that I was pretty sure how it would end, but I could not tell you when.
Much like the tv show House, the “patient”, in that case “illinois government,” had to get sick enough and present enough symptoms after enough other treatments had been tried, that the last remaining diagnosis and treatment would present itself.
The House star Hugh Laurie emulated the great detective Sherlock Holmes’s maxim “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the answer.”
Dr. House also was an addict, and he emulated another important maxim that applies to this situation. “You cannot help someone who does not want your help, and for addicts that does not happen until they hit rock bottom.”
I don’t know what rock bottom is for Trump and his enablers. Trump says he watches the Bond market, but the 50% increase in gold in 2025 ought to be a flashing warning sign to everyone that capital is not flowing into production.
Again, IDK how much more of this the GOP will tolerate before they decide they have hit rock bottom. I only know that the sooner they act the better for them, and the longer they wait the worse for them.
Right now I think they hole the courts will do their job for them, I do think that will slow Trump but not stop him. He believes any judge who disagrees with him is crooked, and that includes his own appointments, from whom he demands 100% loyalty.
If tariffs are shot down, I will not be surprised if Trump demands that justices he appointed be impeached, removed and replaced.
- Pundent - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:44 pm:
=Probably oversimplification, but maybe agree to continue the Affordable Care Act subsidies and end the shutdown?=
Because the benefits of the big beautiful bill are acheived by reducing the cost of programs such as the ACA. Of course that wasn’t conveyed at the time the bill was passed but it’s becoming clearer in the shutdown. And if you haven’t noticed, the GOP isn’t exactly a fan of the ACA and raising those premiums provides fodder for those that want to abolish it.
- JSI - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:45 pm:
My mother in law is set to fly in next week; a cancellation wouldn’t be the end of the world. Surely this will be solved before Thanksgiving travel though.
- H-W - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:46 pm:
This will largely affect the middle and upper middle classes who fly regularly. Will it pit the middle class against the working class, from whom healthcare is being taken, or the middle class against the poor, from whom food, Head Start and Child Care is being taken?
Or will it turn out that the American public writ-large remains committed to feeding the poor, healing the sick, and caring for the children?
My guess is the Republican Congress will continue digging a deeper hole, and in the long run, pay the piper in 2026.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:49 pm:
===Republicans lost both ===
Keep whistling.
- It's Just a Pill - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 1:53 pm:
–Republicans lost both New Jersey and Virginia by 5 points in the last Presidential election.–
…And by 15 on Tuesday. They are known as trends
- Harrison - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 2:10 pm:
The whistles are all sold out these days
Let’s wait to see how the poor governance in Chicago and NYC helps the national Democratic Party next year
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 2:13 pm:
===Let’s wait to see how the poor governance in Chicago and NYC===
Most people don’t live in those cities. We all live in the USA, however.
- End the filibuster - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 2:27 pm:
If the DC GOP is so sure they are on the right path, repeal the filibuster and re-open the federal government without any Dem votes.
- Retired School Board Member - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 2:31 pm:
===Republicans Lost in Virginia & NJ…===
And the two Georgia Statewide races that went blue or the PA Supreme Court Justice retention wins (blue)?
- don the legend - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 3:00 pm:
===Let’s wait to see how the poor governance in Chicago and NYC===
Harrison, do you get your mail delivered to your seat at the end of the bar?
- Demoralized - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 3:03 pm:
==Let’s wait==
You Republicans will do whatever it takes to twist yourself into a knot to make it seem as if Tuesday was no big deal. Maybe I’ll make a visit to the fantasyland you live in someday.
- Johnny O - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 4:16 pm:
@don the legend +1
==poor governance in Chicago and NYC==
The jury is out still on Mamdani, but Trump is failing in Chicago, read the news…
- low level - Thursday, Nov 6, 25 @ 5:36 pm:
== Let’s wait to see how the poor governance in Chicago and NYC helps the national Democratic Party next year==
Nah, lets see how the shutdown and starvation helps the RNC next year. As for New York and Chicago, they are doing quite nicely but you wouldnt know that watching Fox and “News”max