Zincwarrior
Diamond Member
Congress clearly needs to sort themselves out and in a hurry. Flight reductions look to be shifting from 10% to 20%. If Congress mucks up the Thanksgiving travel season, politicians will be tarred and feathered from Florida to Alaska.
Duffy floats flight reductions of up to 20 percent if shutdown doesn’t end
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that flight reductions could go as high as 20 percent if the government shutdown drags on, as the Federal Aviation Administration begins reducing flights by 10 percent due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.“If this continues, and I have more controllers who decide they can’t come to work, can’t control the airspace, but instead have to take a second job — with that, you might see 10 percent would have been a good number, because we might go to 15 percent or 20 percent,” Duffy said at a Breitbart News event in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
Duffy clarified to The Hill after the event that he was speaking theoretically.
“Could it go there? That’s possible. There’s no plan for that,” Duffy said. “I assess the data and how many controllers I have, and I’m just saying we’re gonna make decisions based on what we see in the airspace to make sure we keep it safe. I hope it goes the other direction.”
Airlines began reducing air traffic at 40 airports across the country on Friday by direction of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), starting with 4 percent reductions on Friday and gradually increasing by 2 percent per day to 10 percent.
