Data visualization journalist
The Federal Aviation Administration’s nationwide ground shutdown — which lasted about four hours Friday — caused the second-highest number of flight cancellations this year, according to an analysis of FlightAware data from the Get the Facts Data team.
This figure was surpassed by the major winter storm earlier this year, which resulted in the cancellation of more than 11,500 flights on January 25.
FlightAware data as of 9 a.m. Saturday shows that more than 9,100 flights were canceled within, to or from the United States on November 13. More than 7,200 flights were delayed, although some were delayed before the FAA ground shutdown, and that’s not an abnormal number of delays.
Cancellations were widespread through Saturday. More than 3,700 flights within, to or from the United States were canceled as of 9 a.m. ET.
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