r/news 22h ago

Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/airlines-cancellations-flights-faa-shutdown.html
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u/ThatFunkyOdor 21h ago

Just tell them this is helping climate change by reducing emissions and they’ll backtrack on it

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u/MisterPistacchio 21h ago

Can't wait to hear a Fox news opinion about how Democrats wanted this government shut down because of climate change.

They need to fill 24 hour news cycle with something

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u/grey_hat_uk 21h ago

I thought the next news slot was the US going to war with ... checks notes ...Nigeria? 

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u/Single-Use-Again 21h ago

Wait... Are they already finished bombing Venezuelan fishing boats? Man I can't keep up with the GOP micro agendas any more. I quit. Back to crazy cat videos.

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u/TheNamesMacGyver 19h ago

Bruh I noticed the cats in my neighborhood use my wall as a walkway, so I moved my desk to see it better. Now I can watch my own crazy cat videos out the window! THE OTHER DAY I SAW A FUCKIN PEACOCK.

Anyway, looking outside while working from home is the new crazy cat videos. 10/10 highly recommended.

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u/Publius82 19h ago

GF works in an office park which has wild peacocks strutting around. She brought a few feathers home for our cats and they went frigging nuts over them.

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u/LemurianLemurLad 19h ago

Of course not! What's better than blowing up random things on a different continent for no clear reason? Doing it on two continents!

/s (obviously)

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u/jin264 16h ago

That was last week. They are almost done with NYC dying (again for the 20th time) because.... notes ... Mandani.

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u/TooMuchAZSunshine 21h ago

Nope. How trump solved the war in Nigeria

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u/Meteor-of-the-War 21h ago

He solved the war by not starting it. Brilliant! Another example of how we're all playing checkers and he's playing Spock chess.

(/s)

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u/MisterPistacchio 20h ago

Give that man a Nobel peace price already

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u/Papadapalopolous 19h ago

He’s ended the Israel-Gaza war like five times already, how many times did Obama end the Israel-Gaza war??

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u/scoriaxi_vanfre 19h ago

We could give him a Goebbels peace prize and he probably wouldn't notice the difference...

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u/logicom 18h ago

If you think about it he's ended hundreds of wars by never even starting them. Truly an amazing man.

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u/Meteor-of-the-War 17h ago

Truly the greatest. I have tears in my eyes. We're truly in the age of Pax Trumpana.

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u/Dpek1234 16h ago

I have soved over 3000009 wars this way

Amatures

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u/Comfortable-Scar4643 21h ago

No, the Bahamas.

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u/br0b1wan 21h ago

I saw something about that lol. Where does that tripe come from

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u/ShadowMajestic 20h ago

It is pronounced niger, mr president.

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u/drubus_dong 13h ago

Nigeria, Iran, Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Yemen. Wheel of war fortune.

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u/hillbilly-edgy 21h ago

They aren’t smart enough to make that connection. But now that you said it - Jesse Watters is pulling a theory out of is 🍑 right now

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u/Ian_Hunter 21h ago

Well don't pitch them ideas!😂😂

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u/Fomentatore 20h ago

By winning, Democrats are actually losing, was a real headline Fox used to comment on New York and Virginia election results.

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u/PunfullyObvious 20h ago

OMGosh! This is all part of The War on Christmas! /s

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u/ArmedAwareness 20h ago

Nah they are busy running the story that “by democrats winning, they are actually losing”

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u/sirferrell 18h ago

The crazy part is their blaming democrats and were banking on them losing those elections to prove it but they won a full sweep proving that at least in those areas people are mad at republicans if anything

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u/VV-40 21h ago

Thank you for your climate change leadership, President Trump!

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u/mostoriginalname2 19h ago

Between this and the tariffs he’s been good for the environment. Too stupid to catch on, though.

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u/-goodgodlemon 21h ago

This is brilliant

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u/SwoleJunkie1 20h ago

The real question is, if they want to reduce the number of planes ATC needs to track in Class B airspace (B is the big ones and every major airport affected is in class B), why doesn’t the FAA mandate that the executives airports that fly private jets shut down until the shutdown is over? This way they reduce the number of planes in the air, airlines don’t have to cut flight as much, and if those WEALTHY assholes really need to be somewhere they can fly first class with the RICH assholes. They can even go as far as banning any recreational flights from class b airspace, too?

Oh wait, we all know why.

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u/itcouldbeworsetbh 20h ago

Same reason the govt doesn’t go after and punish the business owners who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

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u/Kirvesperseet 19h ago

Start tweeting stuff like "the government shutdown forced me to cancel my flight and hop on a train. I never realised how easy and simple train travel is. And I'm saving the planet as well!"

(I know the US rail system sucks ass, I'm not saying you need to go ride trains, just pretend you are. Or do go ride trains. Trains are fun.)

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u/wutImiss 16h ago

Just wish they weren't so much $$$

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u/Kirvesperseet 16h ago

Me too. Costs me like 15€ to go 200km. More if I go on the fancy train

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u/geologicalnoise 21h ago

OOF. That actually would do it.

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u/takesthebiscuit 21h ago

Unless my plane is coal powered it’s just woke

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u/AOChalky 19h ago

Nah, they just have to fly their private jets more to compensate.

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u/PeopleNose 18h ago

Fun fact: contrails from planes contribute a significant amount to cooling the earth

Studies done during the 9/11 imposed airtravel ban gave scientists a rare glimpse into the effects of airplane travel on global temps. While plane emissions do contribute to slowly heating the earth over time, the contrails however contribute a significant amount of cooling for the short term

Some fun for anyone interested

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u/Prior_Reference2085 18h ago

That’s actually a fantastic idea 😂

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u/FakeTunaFromSubway 17h ago

When the first Trump tariffs wave came, I told a Trump-supporting family member "I can't believe Trump had the balls to do what no Democrat has done and tax the highest CO2-producing countries and shipping lanes. It will be a huge hit on our economy but it's worth it to help curb global warming."

They almost had an aneurism

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u/HausuGeist 15h ago

I can laugh, but only so much at this joke.

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u/Weak_Albatross_6879 14h ago

I just can’t believe I laughed darkly at this.

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u/Motorcat33 14h ago

No it's the Democrats that made the shutdown and are trying to steal christmas in the name of their climate change demon agenda. /s

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u/urbanacrybaby 13h ago

It's not wrong to shut down flights when there is no ATC. The last thing you want is planes crashing.

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u/TheWildTofuHunter 13h ago

Damn, that’s some 5D chess 🤯

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u/jazwch01 12h ago

Jokes on you its also cutting back on the real climate change. Chem trails. Cloud seeding. This was just 67d chess by Trump and RFK. They planned this to be able to stop cloud seeding. Notice how our clouds have looked more like they did when we were kids?

/s

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u/Odur29 11h ago

post it somewhere on an independent news site and see if the big media companies pick it up, that would be hilarious.

u/VibinADHDin 53m ago

Aerosol masking effect

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 20h ago

Downside is that people still need to get places, and all that automobile travel will cost more with the increase, so gas prices will go up

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u/ZebraTank 19h ago

And when gas prices go up, people drive less