On 6 November 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that scheduled flights at 40 of the United States’ busiest airports would be reduced by up to 10 percent, citing a severe shortage of air traffic controllers caused by the ongoing federal government shutdown. The decision — among the most consequential peacetime interventions by the FAA in the modern history of commercial aviation — triggered widespread cancellations across the national airspace system and reignited a long-running debate about the vulnerability of critical aviation infrastructure to political dysfunction in Washington.
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