LaGuardia Halts Flights, Other Airports in East Coast Experience Delays
The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into New York’s LaGuardia Airport temporarily today because of a shortage of air-traffic control staff. A lack of workers at two air-traffic control facilities prompted the FAA to stop inbound flights Friday to LaGuardia, one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs.
But that wasn’t the only affected airport. The delays were rippling along the Eastern Seaboard, reaching as far north as Boston.
NYT reports that the delays started easing up late Friday morning. But the disruption was significant, with average delays of up to one hour and a half.
The F.A.A. said it was slowing traffic in and out of the airports because of staffing problems at two of its air-traffic control facilities on the East Coast, one near Washington and one in Jacksonville, Fla. Those facilities manage air traffic at high altitudes.
The union that represents flight attendants on Friday said they had been warning that the lengthy government shutdown would start harming the nation’s air travel system.
“The union that represents flight attendants on Friday said they had been warning…”
Flight attendants?
I read this as “ATC warned Flight Attendants that this would happen”