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Officials Warn About an Air Traffic Reduction if Shutdown Continues
Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and F.A.A. officials announced on Wednesday that if the government shutdown continued, Mr. Duffy would cut air traffic by 10 percent for 40 key airports.
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This is proactive. We don’t want to find ourselves in a situation, I think the administrator said, we don’t want the horse out of the barn, and then look back and say there were issues we could have taken that we didn’t. So we are going to proactively make decisions that keep the space — the airspace safe.
Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and F.A.A. officials announced on Wednesday that if the government shutdown continued, Mr. Duffy would cut air traffic by 10 percent for 40 key airports.
By Jamie Leventhal
November 5, 2025
