BATON ROUGE - Thousands of flights across the country are being delayed as the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, began rolling back flight operations by 4% across 40 of the country's largest airports on Friday due to the government shutdown.

It's part of the FAA's plan to reduce operations by 10% at the 40 airports to maintain travel safety.

While Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport is not on the list of 40 airports, the effects of the decrease in operations are still being felt there, with one of its flights to Atlanta being cancelled on Friday morning.

That was Delta flight 4683, scheduled to depart a little before 10:30 a.m.

"We did have one flight, one round-trip to Atlanta that was cancelled as part of that reduction. All five of our hub airports that serve Baton Rouge are on

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