Flights Are Delayed At Major East Coast Airports As Sequester-Related Furloughs Begin

[Purveyor]

By Ashley Halsey III and Luz Lazo, Updated: Monday, April 22, 5:48 PM

After months of inside the Beltway drama, the impact of sequestration cutbacks moved to center stage America on Monday as the aviation system was slowed by the furlough of 1,500 air traffic controllers.

With about 10 percent of the controllers who direct 23,000 planes a day scheduled to be off daily until October, both industry and government officials forecast that the effect would snowball as the nation enters peak travel season.

Short on staff and besieged by brisk winds at the three big New York area airports, controllers fell behind by mid-morning Monday and never caught up. The Newark, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports reported delays of one to three hours.

Most flights from the major Washington area airports ran close to on time, but some headed to New York faced long delays on the ground.

When New York’s three mega-airports fall behind schedule, that often has a ripple effect that reaches as far as the West Coast; by mid-afternoon Monday, flights into the US Airways hub in Charlotte were late in arriving.

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1. they say it will make flights into and out of LAX hell too .

which is redundant .

Times seems to be going backwards with these repukes and their fear tactics.

[valerief]

2. Thank goodness it won't affect the wealthy who have their own jets! That's all that matters. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Not furloughing TSA, I take it.

And those big juicy military contracts continue to be let out...