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Transportation officials say air travel headaches could get even worse as Thanksgiving approaches.
Joe Hernandez, NPR News, Philadelphia.
Juliet Montefusco was flying from Philadelphia to Florida to meet up with her sister and other family members.
Her flight was on time, but she said one part of her family got delayed for hours, including five kids.
Transportation officials say air travel headaches could get even worse as Thanksgiving approaches.
Joe Hernandez, NPR News, Philadelphia.
Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would begin cutting flight traffic up to 10 percent at 40 high-traffic airports in major markets like Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver.
On Sunday, airports across the country were bogged down by disruptions.
By mid-morning, there were already more than 1,200 flight cancellations and 10,000 delays, according to the website FlightAware.
The FAA is currently contending with a shortage of air traffic controllers who were already in short supply before the shutdown and now are not being paid.
The shutdown, which began on October 1st, is the longest in U.S.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says flight disruptions across the country will only worsen the longer the shutdown goes on.
The con was led by a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria with the help of 10 accomplices, according to the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office.
Investigators say they discovered the fraud when the main suspect tried to sell two artworks supposedly made by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
The unnamed ringleader also allegedly tried to sell a copy of a world-famous painting known as the Syndics by the Dutch master Rembrandt, even though it's currently held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Other forgeries seized by police included phony works by Frida Kahlo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Amadeo Modigliani.
Authorities say they confiscated a number of forgeries during a series of raids in Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein earlier this month.