But right now, there are 13,000 air traffic controllers and more than 50,000 TSA officers who are showing up to work without pay. 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. (07:10–07:19)
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Asserts that staffing shortages are currently causing 53% of flight delays, up from the usual 5%.
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