Expect Delays and Cancellations as Shutdown Shrinks Air Traffic
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:39.6 | As the government shutdown stretches into its sixth week, the Federal Aviation Administration has ordered traffic to be reduced by 10% at 40 major airports while air traffic controllers continue to work without pay. |
| 0:53.5 | The FAA is set to name the 40 locations today |
| 0:56.6 | after briefing those affected. Aviation Analytics Company, Sirium, says as many as 1,800 flights |
| 1:04.0 | could be impacted tomorrow. And it's not fully clear how long these restrictions will last. |
| 1:10.5 | It's a big day for Tesla as shareholders are set to decide whether to approve a record-setting pay package for its CEO, Elon Musk. |
| 1:18.5 | That could ultimately give him new stock worth $1 trillion and a roughly 25% stake in the company. |
| 1:26.0 | A series of complex hurdles stand in the way of Musk claiming the award. |
| 1:30.7 | Tesla must hit both a market cap milestone starting at $2 trillion and achieve one of a dozen |
| 1:37.2 | operational milestones. The results are set to be announced at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting |
| 1:42.6 | due to start at 4 p.m. Eastern today. |
| 1:46.0 | And while home buyers have been contenting with the lack of supply in recent years, |
| 1:50.8 | there are now signs that the property market is loosening. |
| 1:54.2 | According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the number of completed but new |
| 1:58.9 | unsold homes in the U.S. is now as high as it was back in the summer of 2009. |
| 2:04.9 | It comes as builders are struggling to find buyers in several parts of the country, including |
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