There may soon be an end to the government shutdown that has been causing massive flight delays for weeks, but the travel nightmare caused by the political chaos in Washington showed no signs of abating Monday.
A day after senators approved a preliminary agreement to end the impasse, which is now in its 41st day, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would continue to restrict commercial flights into and out of some of the country’s busiest airports.
As of Monday morning, more than 1,400 flights had been canceled of the more than 25,000 scheduled, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics company. On Sunday, more than 2,600 flights were canceled, which amounted to about 10% of all scheduled flights. It’s not clear how many were scheduled cancellations because of the shutdown and how many were canceled for other reasons, such as weather.
Yeah, because a lot of flight controllers STILL have to pickup gig work or else resign from their positions in order to pay the bills.
That means less air coverage, which in turn means mandatory flight reductions.
Even if the government 100% reopened this minute, it’ll still probably be around another 2 weeks before the first round of paychecks go out, and even then it won’t be enough to cover nearly a month and a half without income.
The effects of this shutdown will still be felt for months.
we know as soon as congresspeople got scared thier flights were getting canceled they would cave eventually.
At least we got nothing out of it.
Afaik, paychecks are supposed to cover time worked without pay. It’s delayed, not skipped entirely.