Porter Airlines and Air Canada say some flights between Canada and the United States are facing delays and cancellations due to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, which has led to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cutting flights at a number of major American airports due to staffing shortages.
Porter Airlines and Air Canada told The Epoch Times that some flights to and from the United States are still available but that flight disruptions have occurred.
“We continue to fly our normal schedule but we have experienced some delays of our transborder flights, a relatively small number of which have resulted in cancellations. However, as the situation is evolving in real time we have no numbers to provide,” a spokesperson for Air Canada wrote in a Nov. 10 statement to The Epoch Times, adding that there is no disruption of domestic Canadian transcontinental flights….