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Episode: US flight cancellations accelerate as airlines comply with government shutdown order
Description: U.S. airlines began canceling hundreds of flights on November 6 due to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) order to reduce traffic at the country's busiest airports starting on November 7 because of the government shutdown.
More than 790 planned November 7 flights were cut from airline schedules, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. That number, already four times higher than November 6βs daily total, was likely to keep climbing.
The 40 airports selected by the FAA spanned more than two dozen states and included hubs such as Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the agency's order. In...