As Thanksgiving nears, travelers likely will see continuing flight delays even if shutdown ends

By Rio Yamat, Josh Funk and John Seewer | Associated Press

Airlines have canceled more 9,000 flights across the U.S. since the Federal Aviation Administration ordered flight cuts late last week, mostly to ease demand on control towers that are short-staffed during the federal government shutdown.

Although the government appears to be moving to reopen in the coming days, airport disruptions, flight cancellations and economic losses won’t go away all at once.

Here’s how the air travel network is being impacted:

Another 1,200 commercial flights were scratched Tuesday as the Federal Aviation Administration bumped up its target for reducing domestic flights at the nation’s busiest airports to 6%, up from an initial 4% cut at those 40 airports. However, the cancellations so far Tuesday have