More than 100 flights were canceled at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway international airports on Saturday, the second day of a Federal Aviation Administration order cutting flights due to the government shutdown.
The cancellation numbers include flights scheduled to either arrive at or depart from Chicago’s airports. In all, about 3% of flights departing from O’Hare were canceled and 3% of flights from Midway as of Saturday afternoon, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions.
These numbers are similar to Friday , the first day of the order, when one employee described O’Hare’s Terminal 2 as a “ghost town.”
Nationwide, airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights Saturday, avoiding widespread disruptions but deepening the impact of what is now the country’s longe

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