The government shutdown is strangling aviation

An airplane takes disconnected from Reagan National Airport connected the ninth time of the national authorities shutdown connected October 9th, 2025 successful Arlington, Virginia. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

In May, The Verge reported that the US aviation strategy was truthful fragile that "the smallest disruption tin propulsion the full strategy into chaos." That disruption arrived connected October 1st, erstwhile the federal authorities unopen down implicit a fund dispute. Chaos has so ensued.

More than 6,000 flights are being delayed each day, astir doubly the humanities mean for October according to Department of Transportation statistics. The TSA has warned of longer information lines astatine airports and has stopped updating real-time checkpoint accusation connected its MyTSA app. Some large airports person adjacent been forced to run without aerial postulation power for hours astatine …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.