No shutdown relief for air travel yet
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The Senate passed a deal last night to end the record-setting government shutdown. But that hasn’t yet translated into relief for the beleaguered air travel industry, which has seen thousands of canceled flights in response to air traffic controller shortages. Plus, we talk with economist Peter Atwater, one of the economic researchers who first helped popularize the “K-Shaped” economy concept, about inequality in post-pandemic America.
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| 0:31.5 | Movement in Congress to end the government shutdown doesn't help air travel on this Tuesday. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. |
| 0:44.9 | Good morning to you. The Senate passed a bill last night to try to end the government shutdown and sent it on to the House for a vote. But in the meantime, more flights are being canceled. There are more |
| 0:50.3 | than 1,200 U.S. cancellations so far with dawn breaking in the east. |
| 0:55.3 | According to the tracking site, Flight Aware, Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Gensar has more. |
| 0:59.6 | Airlines have to reduce flights at the nation's 40 busiest airports by 6% today, part of an order from the FAA that ratchets up to 10% on Friday. |
| 1:09.0 | The agency is trying to ease strain in the system caused by stressed out air traffic controllers |
| 1:14.7 | who are working without pay during the government shutdown. |
| 1:17.7 | Nick Daniels is president of their union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. |
| 1:22.6 | The added stress leads to fatigue. |
| 1:26.6 | The fatigue has led to the erosion of safety and the increased |
| 1:31.2 | risk every day that this shutdown drags on. Daniel says it's hard for the controllers to concentrate |
| 1:37.1 | when they're worried about paying for child care, gas, and groceries. He says some have taken |
| 1:42.1 | second jobs to pay the bills. |
| 1:50.8 | Even though that there is a new light at the end of tunnel, we'll call it that, every single day, an air traffic controller is still facing the issues that they had yesterday, and they're |
| 1:55.9 | getting worse every single day. And Daniel says controllers are very aware that the stopgap spending legislation |
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