Amid the government shutdown, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had instructed airlines to cut back on their flight schedules, resulting in cancelations and delays at some of the country’s big...

Airlines are optimistic they can resume normal operations within a few days once the government lifts its order to cut some flights at 40 busy airports, but it’s not clear how quickly that will happen...

Data from the aviation analytics firm Cirium showed 816 cancellations on Wednesday, as of 4:30 p.m. ET — compared to over 2,600 on Sunday.