Mobile Regional Airport

The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the federal government. At Birmingham/Shuttlesworth International Airport, passengers faced sixteen (updated) flight cancellations today, following a weekend of similar frustrations, according to the website FlightAware.

Birmingham/Shuttlesworth International Airport is on track to equal or surpass Saturday’s cancellations as the federal shutdown drags on. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,500 weekend flights by Saturday evening. This morning, the website FlightAware said Birmingham’s airport saw seventeen cancellations (updated) Sunday morning, after fifteen flights were called off on Saturday. Three flights were cancelled on Friday, and none on Thursday.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A proposed design for moving an Alabama airport’s passenger service will be released Tuesday. The Mobile Airport Authority is planning…