Flights at 40 major US airports will be cut by 10 per cent from Friday as federal aviation officials seek to alleviate air traffic controller shortages worsened by the government shutdown, potentially disrupting the plans of hundreds of thousands of travellers.
US transportation secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration would begin reducing flights later this week to keep air travel safe as it contends with shutdown pain on top of a nationwide shortfall of about 2,000 air traffic controllers.
The names of the 40 affected airports would be released on Thursday, FAA head Bryan Bedford said at a joint press conference with Duffy, who said the decision would be “data-based”.
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