Almost a fifth of all US air travel – be it domestic or inbound/outbound international traffic – was hit with delays or cancelations on Sunday at 8,700 of around 45,000 flights on the busiest travel day of the week amid the ongoing shutdown caused by the Trump Regime and the supplicant Republican Party in Congress’s refusal to make health insurance more affordable for millions, CBS News reports.
The delayed flights dropped to 3,370 total on Monday, representing about 7.5 percent of typical 42,000-flight volume at the beginning of the work week, but this most likely can be attributed to more slack in the system when it’s a lower traffic level and thus further away from full capacity.
In related news, the Dallas Morning News reports that the FAA on Monday issued a ground delay at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, meaning that any and every flight bound for the city needs to be cleared by the federal government before it can even take off, which fucks up the schedule of those origin airports who have to manage and coordinate runway traffic on a tight schedule.