U.S. airlines prepared to phase in hundreds of flight cuts at the country’s busiest airports starting Friday, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.
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A traveler moves in view of a control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Nov. 5.
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Planes taxi in front of an air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, N.J., Nov. 6.
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Associated Press journalist Christopher L. Keller contributed from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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