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Major airports across the U.S. canceled hundreds of flights Thursday in preparation for massive cuts to air traffic made by the Federal Aviation Administration amid the ongoing and historic government shutdown.
By Thursday afternoon there had already been around 200 cancellations within and in and out of the U.S., according to flight-tracking site FlightAware.com. Over 700 flights had already been canceled Friday, the day that the cuts are due to begin.
It comes after Transport Secretary Sean Duffy and the FAA announced that 40 of the country’s busiest airports across two dozen states, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, would be phasing in a 10 percent reduction in their flight schedules.
The disruptions will affect se
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