“I just don’t want to be stranded at the airport sleeping on a bench,” Michele Cuthbert, of Columbus, Ohio, said about an upcoming flight to Dallas.

U.S. airlines started cancelling hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the more-than-month-long government shutdown.

Schiavo said a recovery to normal schedules is possible by Thanksgiving should the shutdown come to an end within the next week, but noted another variable that may impact air travel instead: weather...

American travelers on Nov. 8 faced a second day of government-mandated flight cancellations, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has warned that cuts could keep growing if the historic government ...