Saturday is the beginning of the first weekend of federally mandated flight reductions at dozens of airports across the country.

In the Bay Area, that directive includes San Francisco and Oakland as the government shut down continues.

Magnolia Ng says she was supposed to hop on a morning flight at SFO, but things didn’t go as planned.

“We ended up being delayed due to maintenance issues ‘till 11:30 and it got pushed back ‘till 12:30 and now it’s 4:30 so we won’t arrive until 10-10:30 at Dallas so we figured it might be too late for everyone we’re just going to cancel our flight,” Ng said.

She also considered the FAA directive at 40 major airports for airlines to reduce flights. She didn’t want to take any chances with her trip.

The FAA ordered airlines to reduce air traffic by 4% on F

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