What are travelers in for? Assuming there's no end of the government shutdown. Yes. First off, yesterday, Jake, 18 of 22 controllers in Atlanta didn't show up. We had 81 staffing triggers throughout the national airspace yesterday. Yesterday. That means controllers weren't coming to work. To answer your question, it's only going to get worse. I look to, you know, the two weeks before Thanksgiving, you're going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle. (00:21–00:26)
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