Sunday, November 9, 2025

Airports Affected By Government Shutdown -- November 9, 2025

Locator: 49375TRAVEL.

Two links.

Observations:

  • about 1 - 3% cancellations in most cases:
  • exception: Atlanta, Georgia -- really hit hard; 
    • there may be Atlanta-specific reasons; it is way outside the average;
    • interestingly, in this Yahoo article, Atlanta not even mentioned -- suggests a lot of the flights may be regional flights;
    • Atlanta with lots of international flights;
      • government says international flights won't be impacted due to international agreements -- yet ChatGPT said the opposite --  
  • JFK has the highest percentage of international flights among the listed airports (EWR, JFK, ATL, LAX) at 42%, while LAX has 23% and EWR has 28%. However, it's important to note that ATL has the highest total passenger traffic overall, even though a lower percentage of its flights are international 

Observations:

  • huge impact on individual passengers;
  • some impact on some airlines;
  • minimal impact on aviation sector;
  • getting way more attention than it deserves;
  • sort of like reporting on toilet paper shortage or egg prices.