(Washington) The American Secretary of Transport warned on Sunday that air traffic would gradually reduce “inexorably”, due to the budgetary blockage which is stretching out and leading the authorities to reduce the number of flights in the face of the shortage of air traffic controllers.
Since Friday, the American aviation regulator, the FAA, has been asking companies to reduce their schedules, leading to the cancellation of more than a thousand flights per day, or around 4% of American air traffic, as a major crossover approaches in the country at the end of November.
“Air traffic is going to be reduced to nothing while everyone wants to travel to see their families” on the occasion of the traditional Thanksgiving holiday, Sean Duffy said on Fox News.
