#air-traffic-controller-staffing

#air-traffic-controller-staffing

NBC on Monday unexpectedly used a clip from Fox News star Bill Hemmer during a segment about air travel returning to normal. In the final days of the government shutdown, the Trump administration drastically cut flights at the busiest airports in the country due to safety concerns and staffing shortages. Once the historically-long shutdown finally came to an end, those restrictions were lifted.

The government shutdown has come for your travel plans, and the impacts began to mount Friday with the implementation of a 10% reduction in flight traffic that was ordered this week by the FAA, in order to address low staffing levels among air traffic controllers. At SFO Friday, a ground stop was ordered between 4 am and 8:45 am that delayed a number of incoming flights, which in turn caused delays for departing flights that were waiting on those inbound aircraft.