✈️ Government Shutdown: Impact on Travel Plans (AARP Article/Updated)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Massive Flight Delays Worry Travelers as Government Shutdown Continues.

Challenges intensify as the holiday travel season looms.

By Berit Thorkelson, AARP. Published October 03, 2025.

➡️[*** Updated October 31, 2025.

The U.S. government shutdown is now headed toward the one-month mark, making it the second-longest shutdown in American history.

It’s closing in on the longest, which was the last shutdown. That ran from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019 — 35 days.

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https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/government-shutdown-travel-plans/

[MuktaS390247 · Accepted solution]

Yeah, this is stressing a lot of travelers out. I’ve started building in extra time at the airport just in case - better to chill with a coffee than miss your flight because of short staffing.

[Winter2025VA]

[11/3/25]

@MuktaS390247 , I am surprised that planes are still flying with all the Air Traffic Controllers "drama" in the media.

Lol, at age 67, I am staying on the ground.

Between all the crashes, I NO longer feel safe flying although I will have to when I relocate back to Florida from Virginia. Seriously thought of driving, but way too many hours for my old bones. 🙄

Anyway, glad you figured out a system that works for you.

[Winter2025VA]

[Monday 11/3/25]

I predict some airlines will be going out of business and loss of airline jobs.