FAA plans to cut 10% of flights in major markets due to shutdown
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Has your house become a burden? Why not sell it us? Simple Quarters is a local Christian company that loves to assist people in difficult situations. |
| 0:08.0 | Wanda has been in real estate, I've been in construction. Probably we flipped about 40 houses. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't want to do it anymore. We're in our early 80s. Sometimes you have to give it up. |
| 0:19.0 | Gabe, he did a good job. |
| 0:20.0 | When I got the purchase agreement, and he did have things in there that was pertinent to me. James followed through of what he said. Call Simple Quarters 317, 900 home. Hey, you know how you avoid flight delays? How's that, Rob? Just don't get on an airplane. You notice who's not hearing a panic about the lack of air traffic controllers? |
| 0:39.1 | You? |
| 0:39.4 | Me. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah. You know why? Why? I don't get on an airplane. Yeah. You on the other hand. I know. You're a horrible timing. What horrible timing. So I am set to take a few days off next week. and the plan is to get on a plane tomorrow out of Indianapolis, |
| 1:01.9 | a connector in Nashville, and fly down to Fort Lauderdale. Yeah. Don't know. I think maybe I'm going to have a weekend in Nashville instead. Yeah, look at yourself. If that flight happens. |
| 1:06.0 | You're in a cold sweat panic over here. And me, I'm just sitting back here having a good old time, |
| 1:12.0 | not worried about anything as it relates to traveling. Well, one, because I don't travel, |
| 1:16.3 | but two, two, I don't get on airplanes. Yeah. So this is a typical trip that I take this time of |
| 1:23.5 | year. Meet my brother and my sister-in-law down there. They live in Washington, D.C., and, you know, |
| 1:29.3 | we celebrate Veterans Day with them, and I've got the big wedding anniversary coming up. So this is |
| 1:34.7 | an annual thing for us. And I was texting my sister-in-law this morning. I said, so what's |
| 1:39.7 | plan B? And she kind of said, yeah, no, there is no plan B. So the FAA has plans to cut airline |
| 1:48.0 | capacity by 10% in what they call 40 high volume areas. And the move is in response to the |
| 1:55.9 | shortage of air traffic controllers who are working currently without pay during our government shutdown. |
| 2:01.6 | So wait, wait, wait, say, if they're working, they must not be working because if they were |
| 2:05.6 | actually working. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah, a lot of them are calling in sick or just not showing up. |
| 2:10.6 | That's the answer. |
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