Flight cancellations on Sunday
Circles are sized by the number of canceled flights. Lines are the routes of flights that were canceled.
Hundreds of flights across the United States were canceled on Sunday, the third day of reductions as deeper cuts loomed in the coming days.
Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Department officials have said the traffic reduction is necessary to ease pressure on air traffic controllers, some of whom have been calling in sick and working second jobs because they have not been paid during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
More than one thousand flights were canceled on Friday, with over 1,400 more on Saturday. As of Sunday, more than 4,300 flights in the United States had been canceled since the reductions began.
Despite the cuts, major travel hubs appeared to be relatively calm through the weekend. But the warning from Sean Duffy, the Transportation secretary, that the number of mandated flight reductions could continue rise brought home the effects of the government shutdown to many more Americans.
U.S. officials identified 40 airports where flights should be cut in phases, with the goal of reducing activity by 10 percent by the end of this week.
The reduction in traffic comes weeks before the busy holiday travel season begins in the United States. The airports that have already been affected range from large hubs to smaller destinations. They are in blue states and red states, spread across the country.
Here is a look at how cuts at affected airports compare to cancellations at those hubs this time last year:
Share of scheduled flights that were canceled in recent days and throughout Nov. 2024
Newark
4.5%
42 of 940 flights
20.3%
154 of 759 flights
26.7%
252 of 943 flights
0.4%
New York LaGuardia
4.5%
47 of 1,045
7.7%
47 of 614
19.4%
195 of 1,007
0.1%
Atlanta
4.2%
84 of 1,979
18.9%
335 of 1,775
17.8%
387 of 2,175
0.1%
Chicago O’Hare
3.5%
82 of 2,313
4.4%
90 of 2,052
13.2%
304 of 2,308
0.3%
Memphis
3.1%
5 of 160
4.8%
6 of 126
11.6%
20 of 172
0.2%
Cincinnati
7.2%
18 of 250
6.5%
13 of 199
11.1%
30 of 270
0.2%
Washington Reagan
17.4%
151 of 869
11.5%
72 of 625
11%
92 of 840
0.2%
Detroit
4.3%
35 of 806
5.2%
38 of 725
9.5%
81 of 856
0.1%
Minneapolis/St. Paul
4.5%
35 of 784
5%
34 of 682
9.2%
79 of 860
0.1%
Boston
4.8%
46 of 960
7.2%
54 of 750
9.1%
88 of 969
0.1%
Tampa
3.4%
17 of 493
7.7%
32 of 416
8.9%
46 of 514
0.2%
Salt Lake City
3.2%
21 of 650
3.9%
23 of 584
8.7%
59 of 676
0.2%
Indianapolis
5.7%
17 of 297
9.4%
23 of 244
8.2%
25 of 304
0.2%
Fort Lauderdale
2.8%
16 of 564
7.8%
43 of 548
7.8%
47 of 600
0.1%
New York JFK
4.5%
41 of 913
11.1%
100 of 901
7.3%
68 of 932
0%
Dallas-Fort Worth
3.4%
62 of 1,810
4.2%
71 of 1,707
7.2%
139 of 1,937
1.7%
Miami
2.7%
23 of 839
6.7%
58 of 869
7.2%
61 of 849
0.1%
Louisville
8%
12 of 150
7%
9 of 128
7.1%
11 of 156
0.1%
Ontario
3.6%
6 of 168
2.3%
3 of 131
7%
12 of 171
0.7%
San Diego
3.5%
22 of 627
4.6%
22 of 479
6.9%
44 of 642
0.4%
Philadelphia
4.3%
30 of 701
8.8%
54 of 612
6.7%
48 of 715
0.1%
Phoenix
3.6%
44 of 1,206
4.2%
43 of 1,015
6.5%
86 of 1,316
0.3%
Washington Dulles
3.2%
20 of 619
6.2%
34 of 545
6.4%
40 of 622
0.2%
Orlando
2.7%
27 of 1,001
6.7%
65 of 970
6.4%
66 of 1,024
0.2%
Charlotte
3.1%
41 of 1,327
10.8%
141 of 1,301
5.9%
88 of 1,493
0.1%
Los Angeles
3.9%
50 of 1,274
4.1%
46 of 1,121
5.3%
69 of 1,303
0.3%
Seattle-Tacoma
2.3%
24 of 1,033
3.8%
34 of 904
5.3%
55 of 1,045
0.5%
Portland (Ore.)
2.3%
10 of 438
4.1%
15 of 364
5.2%
23 of 441
0.5%
Baltimore-Washington
3.2%
18 of 562
7.1%
31 of 439
4.4%
25 of 572
0.2%
San Francisco
4.3%
41 of 960
4.5%
38 of 850
4.3%
42 of 968
1.2%
George Bush Houston
3.1%
35 of 1,112
3.4%
34 of 1,001
4.1%
46 of 1,125
0.2%
Las Vegas Reid
2.5%
29 of 1,138
3%
26 of 869
3.9%
45 of 1,168
0.3%
Chicago Midway
2.5%
10 of 405
5.6%
17 of 306
3.9%
16 of 413
0.3%
Denver
3.6%
67 of 1,866
4%
61 of 1,518
3.5%
65 of 1,875
1.4%
Houston Hobby
6%
20 of 336
4.9%
13 of 265
2.9%
10 of 339
0.4%
Honolulu
2.5%
10 of 400
2.3%
9 of 393
2.6%
10 of 389
0.3%
Oakland
5.4%
11 of 203
5.2%
8 of 155
2.5%
5 of 202
0.4%
Anchorage
1%
2 of 201
2.9%
5 of 172
2.3%
4 of 176
1.3%
Dallas Love Field
2.7%
11 of 402
4.2%
13 of 311
1.9%
8 of 416
0.9%
Teterboro
0%
0 of 8
0%
0 of 6
0%
0 of 8
No data
