The U.S. Department of Transportation’s plan to cut air traffic by 10% starting Friday appears to be affecting planned flights out of Portland International Airport.

The airport’s website shows that six departing flights are canceled for the 24-hour period beginning at 3 am, compared with no cancellations today and one yesterday. Six arrivals are cancelled tomorrow, compared with none today and three yesterday.

Three of tomorrow’s cancelled departing flights are on Alaska Airlines, and one each are on Southwest, United and Delta. The breakdown is the same for arrivals.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said yesterday that he planned to slash flights by 10% at 40 major airports to take pressure off air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay since the U.S. government s

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