FAA: Flights delayed at 3 major airports due to 'staffing' issues amid government shutdown
Flights at three major airports were being delayed Friday because of an increase in air traffic control employees calling in sick as the government shutdown continued.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s flight delay map showed significant departure delays at Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, on Friday morning. Lesser delays also showed at New York LaGuardia.
The FAA listed “staffing” as the cause and had issued a “traffic management” initiative to slow down the rates of departures. Typically, that “metering” effort helps controllers space out planes to keep the pace of either arrivals or departures from exceeding their capacity.
The FAA confirmed it had initiated procedures to adjust flights because of an increase in sick calls by controllers.
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