It's not a great week to fly. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration canceled hundreds of planned flights at 40 high-traffic US airports due to a record-long government shutdown that has affected air traffic controllers. The controllers are working without pay and were already shorthanded even before the disruption began on Oct. 1. Flight cuts began at 4% Friday, will bump up to 5% Saturday and ramp up to 10% next week.

According to CNN , airlines canceled more than 800 flights as of about 4:30 a.m. ET Friday, reportedly four times the number of flights canceled the day before.

NBC News reports that several airports across the country have issued staffing triggers , indicating that they lack sufficient staff to operate their regular schedules.

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