A level takes disconnected from Hollywood Burbank Airport arsenic operations resume a time aft the airdrome operated for hours without a staffed power operation owed to staffing shortages amid the U.S. authorities shutdown successful Burbank, California, U.S., October 7, 2025.
Daniel Cole | Reuters
Air postulation power staffing issues are delaying flights for a 2nd consecutive time astatine galore U.S. airports arsenic the authorities shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said successful a announcement connected Tuesday.
The FAA said galore flights were being delayed astatine Nashville and Newark airports, among others. Arriving flights were being held for up to 30 minutes astatine Newark owed to the staffing issues.
Nashville aerial postulation power is facing important staffing issues and volition curtail operations aboriginal connected Tuesday, the FAA said. Approach power volition beryllium taken implicit aboriginal by Memphis Center, it added.
The FAA is reducing the fig of arriving flights per hr astatine Chicago O'Hare, citing staffing, with mean delays of 41 minutes.
The FAA besides reported staffing issues astatine Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Severe upwind is besides impacting flights crossed the country.
Some 13,000 aerial postulation controllers and astir 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers indispensable inactive crook up for enactment during the authorities shutdown, but they are not being paid. Controllers are acceptable to person a partial paycheck connected October 14 for enactment performed earlier the shutdown.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said connected Monday the FAA had seen a flimsy summation successful controllers taking sick permission and aerial postulation staffing has been chopped by 50% successful immoderate areas since the shutdown started past week.
"If we don't person controllers, we're going to marque definite the airspace is safe. So what we bash is we'll dilatory traffic," Duffy said connected Tuesday connected Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
FlightAware, a formation tracking website, said much than 2,500 flights had been delayed connected Tuesday, including astir 200 astatine Nashville, oregon 20% of its flights, and astir 500 flights astatine Chicago O'Hare, oregon much than 15% of flights.
In 2019, during a 35-day shutdown, the fig of absences by controllers and TSA officers roseate arsenic workers missed paychecks, extending checkpoint hold times astatine immoderate airports. Authorities were forced to dilatory aerial postulation successful New York, which enactment unit connected lawmakers to rapidly extremity the standoff.
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