LOS ANGELES - Big delays for flights arriving at LAX this Sunday evening.

The FAA issued a ground delay citing "staffing" issues.

The delay at LAX comes as people feel the impact of staffing shortages at airports across the country. Air traffic controllers and other federal workers are working without pay due to the government shutdown, which started Oct. 1.

Some families were waiting a little longer than usual for their loved ones to arrive at LAX on Sunday.

"We’re picking up our daughter and her family and they flew out of Arcata and they had to sit there on the tarmac for about a half hour," a woman told FOX 11.

From Boston to Newark to Denver, flights arriving at LAX were experiencing an average delay of about one hour after the FAA issued a ground delay citing "staffing" as the

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