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A wave of flight cancellations swept across US airports on Friday as federal aviation regulators cut journeys at dozens of large airports during the longest government shutdown on record.
By 5.30pm Eastern Standard Time, 1,009 flights across the US had been cancelled, according to tracking website FlightAware, at least five times more than the number on any of the previous three days.