The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) flight reduction emergency order will be terminated Monday morning, allowing normal air traffic operations to resume nationwide, according to officials.
“I want to thank the FAA’s dedicated safety team for keeping our skies secure during the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history and the country’s patience for putting safety first,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, controllers have returned to their posts and normal operations can resume.”
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He added, “Now we can refocus our efforts on surging controller hiring and building the brand new, state-of-the-art air traffic control system the American people deserve.”
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