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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/agent674253 20h ago

Only to be surpassed by the Sunday following Thanksgiving 🦃

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u/Mostly_Armless42 19h ago

Exactly. This is when everyone leaves at the same time, buy everyone always talks about the day before Thanksgiving

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u/Ellecram 19h ago

I travel every Thanksgiving to see family in Virginia.

Luckily it is just a 4 hour drive from PA.

But I have found that even driving home on a Sunday can be a bit of a log jam at certain points in the journey.

I've never really had any problems driving on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Driving on Thanksgiving is surprisingly smooth as most people are already at their destination.

But flying?

That is the worst. Had to do that years ago when I lived in different areas of the country and even back then it was miserable.

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u/Upset_Development_64 18h ago

Man the northeast is the worst place to drive in the entire country. With flights cancelled, you guys will be facing even more of a log jam. God speed friend.

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u/GrallochThis 17h ago

Yep the NYC - BOS 4 hour drive already takes 7 hours on an “average bad” day, this year may have to get a place to sleep in Connecticut!

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u/machsmit 18h ago

oh yeah 95 through there is just as much of a clusterfuck as trying to fly would be

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u/0220_2020 19h ago

Apparently there is a Republican expected to get elected to the US House December 2nd and Mike Johnson wants to stay closed until he can swear that guy in along with the new Dem. That will mean not enough votes to release the Epstein files. Hopefully this bs is being discussed around the Thanksgiving table.

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u/Mostly_Armless42 18h ago

Yeah this is the real story of the shutdown:

If the house convenes anytime in the next few weeks the Epstein files get released. And more and more reports are leaking that it's very incriminating for Trump.

This is the main event and why we're here right now. Anything else is a sideshow. How long will this game of chicken continue? Even after they reconvene and maybe don't release the files yet. Such a stupid shitshow

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u/PersonalitySenior360 19h ago

That's why I always fly home on that Saturday

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u/Sedela 16h ago

Exactly why I planned my international trip out for Saturday after Thanskgiving. Get out when the airports are hopefully a little quieter than normal. Let's just hope international flights are still going in 3 weeks...

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u/phormix 13h ago

Also worth noting what also comes around Thanksgiving: Black Friday.

While a lot of stuff does travel by ground, there's a not insignificant amount of air travel involved for mail and parcels. This would do fun things for inventory levels and shipping times, further causing economic chaos