An United Airlines flight arrives at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. ( Photo by AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced it’s trimming 10 per cent of scheduled flight capacity across 40 domestic airports to ease the burden on the system caused by the U.S. government shutdown, a move that has the potential to disrupt airlines and hundreds of thousands of travellers daily.

An average of 2.5 million people in the U.S. go through airport security checkpoints every day, a number that will likely tick up heading into the holiday season. And this shutdown, already the longest in U.S. history, is showing no signs of an end coming soon.

Here’s what to expect:

Which airports will be affected?

The FAA has yet to release a list of

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