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Flight cancellations: Full list of 40 airports hit by FAA cuts amid government shutdown

Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled across the country on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it would reduce air traffic by 10% at 40 major airports across the country amid staffing shortages triggered by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.

According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, there were at least 800 flight cancellations and more than 1,000 delays as of 9 a.m. ET.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday that the reductions were an attempt to “alleviate the pressure” on air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay since the shutdown began. Absences at air traffic control towers have already resulted in flight disruptions.

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Trump threatens air traffic controllers who fail to return to work as flight cancellations jump

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This country now lets travelers clear immigration without stopping
By Bronwyn Thompson
November 26, 2025

In a world first, two airports have done away with border guards at counters checking passports and arrival cards, in favor of a new AI-integrated biometric system that lets passengers skip the queue and pass through immigration without stopping.

Two airports in Indonesia have rolled out the Seamless Corridors from tech company Aradeus, which capture biometrics from "in motion" passengers as they pass through a wide hallway, doing away with the need to line up to have their passport and arrivals card manually checked. They're now operational at Jakarta and Surabaya airports, with more to come.

https://newatlas.com/transport/country- ... iometrics/

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Fastest civilian jet enters service at near-supersonic speed
By David Szondy
December 13, 2025

Civilian supersonic flight may not have made its anticipated revival yet but there's still a need for speed as shown by Bombardier, which has announced that its Global 8000 business jet is entering service with a claimed top speed of Mach 0.95.

Before Concorde was retired in 2003, it routinely reached a top speed of Mach 2.04 – and that was just the top authorized speed. Its massive Olympus engines could have pushed the envelope further but to go any faster would have heated the airframe beyond safety limits.

Today, while a new generation of supersonic transports is under development, civilian aviation is consigned to speeds below that of sound, though some business jets can go over Mach 9-and-a-bit. That may not be quite supersonic, but it is well inside the transonic range where an aircraft is going so fast that some parts of it could go supersonic at some point.

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Trump proposes to cut 9,400 TSA workers, $1.5 billion from budget

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WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget documents.

The details were part of a budget document for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TSA, that is part of the White House budget proposal for the next fiscal year.

Congress will hold hearings on the White House budget request later this month as lawmakers aim to reach a new budget deal before the fiscal year ends on September 30. Some Republican lawmakers have pushed to privatize TSA completely. The budget details were unrelated to the funding impasse in Congress over DHS for the current year, which has caused airport delays as TSA workers went without paychecks.

President Donald Trump on Friday proposed requiring smaller airports to use private security in place of TSA as a first step toward privatizing the agency created after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The White House said this change would cut the TSA payroll by more than 4,500 jobs. The TSA proposes to cut another 4,800 jobs by improving efficiency, ending staffing at exit lanes and eliminating redundancies. The employee cuts would save more than $500 million in agency costs.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/gove ... r-AA20hYES

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More on that by the BBC:

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