Traveling soon? Know how to navigate flight cancellations now

Flying soon? Listen up. 

At 40 of the country’s busiest airports, flights coming and going volition beryllium reduced by 10% this week. 

Travelers spell done TSA airdrome information astatine Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, successful SeaTac, Wash. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)

That means thousands of flights canceled, or, successful different words, 200,000 less seats successful the aerial per day. Blame it connected a record‑long authorities shutdown.

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Major hubs volition beryllium the hardest hit: Hartsfield‑Jackson Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York‑JFK, Chicago O’Hare and galore more. Together, those 40 airports screen astir 70% of U.S. flights. So, yes, adjacent if you’re successful Hicksville, you consciousness it.

A traveler waits with his luggage astatine Newark Liberty International Airport successful Newark, N.J., Nov. 7, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

Your "flightmare" endurance plan

If you program connected flying anywhere, here’s what you do.

• Book the archetypal formation of the day. Yeah, it’s a bummer, but flights departing earlier 9 a.m. are astir doubly arsenic apt to alert arsenic those aboriginal successful the day.
• Download your airline’s app now. This is your fastest way to real‑time rebooks and alerts.
• Use the MyTSA app. Get unrecorded information hold times truthful you’re not stuck successful a five‑hour shuffle enactment that’s already happening.
• Check your spot map. Oddly bare formation = higher hazard of cancellation. Full formation = safer bet.
• Know your rights. If your formation is canceled oregon importantly delayed owed to the cuts, you’re legally entitled to a currency refund, not conscionable immoderate aboriginal credit.
• Have a Plan B. Rental car one‑way pickups are up 20% this week. Trains oregon adjacent a longer thrust mightiness prevention your holiday.

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Gas prices are down (average astir $3.08), truthful a roadworthy travel could truly marque sense.

Don’t wait. Don’t assume. Keep checking, enactment flexible and dainty your question similar you’d dainty a tempest warning: Get up of it, not down it.

Travelers caput down an escalator aft clearing done a information checkpoint successful Denver International Airport Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, successful Denver. (David Zalubowski/AP Photo)

Pass this on: Know idiosyncratic flying soon? Don’t permission them grounded. Forward this station earlier they extremity up sleeping successful an airdrome seat with their cervix astatine a 90-degree angle. Sharing this could prevention a trip, a vacation oregon astatine slightest someone’s sanity. And hey, we’ve each got that 1 person who needs the reminder to download the hose app earlier they get to the gate.

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