The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will terminate its standing order to reduce flights out of U.S. airports on Nov. 17 as the country moves to return to normal air traffic in the aftermath of the government shutdown.
“U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford today announced that the agency’s flight reduction emergency order will be terminated on Monday, November 17 at 6 a.m. This means normal operations can resume across the National Airspace System,” the federal agency said in a statement on its website.
The order had been put in place due to air traffic control staffing shortages that arose as a result of the 43-day government shutdown. Many air traffic controllers who weren’t receiving pay during the shutdown had begun to skip work, leading to staffing shortages which required a reduction in air traffic….