The first wave of flight cancellations ordered by the Trump administration in response to the government shutdown hit airports across the United States on Friday, foreshadowing what could be wider disruptions in air travel if Congress does not reach a spending deal soon.

Although airlines said they were able to limit the fallout, there was a growing sense of frustration among some travelers that a federal shutdown was to blame for hundreds of canceled flights.

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By Friday afternoon, major airports serving Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas, also had flight delays ranging from 15 minutes to several hours that were caused at least partly by limited air traffic controller staffing.

Bryan Dick, who was at LaGuardia Airport in

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