FAA to reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 high-volume markets I Live Updates from Fox News Digital

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Delta Air Strains and American Airways mentioned Thursday that the “overwhelming majority” of their prospects won’t be affected by an upcoming discount in flights at 40 main U.S. airports beginning Friday.

“Delta is complying with a directive from the FAA and the U.S. Division of Transportation to scale back the variety of flights at 40 main U.S. airports starting Friday, November 7,” Delta mentioned in a press release.

“Delta expects to function the overwhelming majority of our flights as scheduled, together with all long-haul worldwide flights, and can work to reduce buyer affect whereas holding security our high precedence.”

The airline added: “We’re providing all our prospects extra flexibility throughout the affected journey interval to alter, cancel or refund their flights, together with our base economic system fares, with out penalty.”

In its personal assertion, American Airways mentioned: “Whereas we await extra info from the FAA to find out which flights shall be affected, we anticipate the overwhelming majority of our prospects’ journeys to stay unaffected.”

“If any schedule adjustments are made, we are going to proactively contact affected prospects,” it additionally mentioned.