Secretary Duffy is doing a great job to triage this, but he noted that normally just 5% of flight delays are the result of staffing shortages. Right now, that number at least a days ago was 53%. According to online flight tracking databases, there were 19,000 delayed flights from Saturday to Monday and an additional 1600 canceled flights during that same period. That number is only going to increase as the Democrat shutdown continues, especially as air traffic controllers are set to miss another paycheck on October 28th. (07:19–07:31)
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Asserts that there were 19,000 delayed flights and 1,600 canceled flights from Saturday to Monday.
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