What a time for you to start this job. Are you sure you want to do this. I tell you, it's been great.Yeah. I love working for the industry in that it is obviously a challenge. It's a challenge on a normal day.But I effectively work for the nine CEOs of the nine largest air carriers in America, and they're trying to reopen the government. Oh, yeah. Well, they're not trying to reopen the government.Yeah, they're crying. Oh, no. Absolutely.And it's everything from being on the phones to, you know, talking to f ...

The record setting dysfunction on Capitol Hill, causing new layers of chaos at airports across the country. The nation's four largest airlines already cancelling hundreds of flights across 40 airports in hightra areas. Passengers furious.>> I think the government's playing with people's lives. >> The FAA hoping today's 4% cut in flights will ease the burden on air traffic controllers who are still working without pay 38 days into the government shutdown. If the shutdown drags on, the agency planning to ramp ...

Welcome back. As we noted earlier, the government shutdown is now taking its toll on air travel with the government announcing potential cuts to air traffic at 40 major US airports starting tomorrow. Transportation Secretary Shawn Duffy says the cuts will help alleviate the additional pressure placed on air traffic controllers who continue to work without pay during this shutdown.there is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations. Uh the administrator is going to tell you that it's been ...

And we have more on tomorrow's air travel reduction. Let's bring in MSNBC aviation analyst and former acting head of the FAA, Billy Nolan. Thank you so much for being here. Already we are seeing thousands of flight delays, dozens of cancellations. What kind of impact will this next step, this automatic, you know, across the board 10% reduction in flights at these 40 different airports, what's that going to look like for travelers? >> Yeah. Well, thanks Anna Anna. Um look our national airspace system uh it's ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@MCCCANM Why don't airlines pony up the miniscule fraction of their earnings it would take to continue to fully fund air traffic control etc.? Has corporate welfare become such a religious belief with them that they so adamantly refuse to pay for these services? This is so stupid. ...

Emily Aetta has the very latest from Newark International Airport tonight. And Emily, when will these changes start. >> Well, Tom, the transportation secretary says the cuts will go into effect beginning Friday morning and are expected to impact thousands of flights a day across 40 hightra airports around the country.Officials calling the 10% reduction in flying capacity a proactive measure to alleviate the pressure on the system and air traffic controllers who remember have been working without pay during ...

The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground delay for flights bound for Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday due to air traffic control staffing constraints https://t.co/nzy9Wwvoao ...

None of us can manage missing two paychecks. So if if you bring us to a week from today, Democrats, you will see mass chaos. You will see um mass flight delays, you'll see mass cancellations, and you may may see us close certain parts of the airspace because we just cannot manage it because we don't have the air traffic controllers.And as every day goes by, I think the problem is going to only get worse, uh not better. Uh I hope that uh Democrats come to their senses and end this shutdown. I don't even know ...

Airports in the New York City area are under traffic restrictions from federal regulators owing in part to reduced staffing at multiple air-traffic control centers https://t.co/Oj2YwuixZK ...

Tomorrow is going to be less safe than today. When an air traffic controller isn't 100% focused on the job that they do day in and day out, that puts the system at risk. It puts the less safe and every day that this drags on, that risk increases in the system.>> So today is the first day you've now missed a full paycheck. What kind of tension is going on inside these towers and traycons. >> It wasn't even just a full paycheck.We had a partial paycheck last time. So air traffic controllers worked over 120 ho ...