What to Expect as Airlines Cut Flights Amid the Shutdown (2)

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

An average of 2.5 million people in the US 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 US history, is showing no signs of an end coming soon.

Here’s what to expect:

Which airports will ...