Sean Duffy
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15 series
first heard Jul 2025
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Brian Bedford announced the end of the emergency order on Sunday, adding that all normal operations can resume across the nation's airspace.
Flight traffic had been reduced at 40 of the nation's busiest airports as a result of safety concerns related to staffing shortages.
Air traffic controllers had been working without pay since October 1.
Absent workers started returning as a deal was reached to reopen the government.
The emergency order was put in place on November 7 and led to thousands of flight delays and cancellations.
The FAA says it's reviewing reports that some carriers weren't complying with the order.
Maria Andrusiewicz, NPR News, Washington.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · GOP Leaders Panic and Lose it on Air as Plan Blows Up · 10 Nov 2025
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Problem I have too is, as you know, I'm short air traffic controllers.
I'm trying to get more air traffic controllers into the towers and be certified, but I'm about 1,000 to 2,000 controllers short.
And so I paid experienced controllers to stay on the job and not retire.
I used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown.
I'm now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring.
So it's going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace.
So this is going to live on in air travel well beyond the timeframe that this government opens back up.
I think the number is going to be substantial.
Again, you look at the trend line, Jake, and it's only gotten worse as we've gone through the shutdown.
We're day 40 now.
And, you know, we saw the largest number of outage of controllers was on Halloween, the 31st.
Those numbers were were were 61.
Yesterday was 81.
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