Sean Duffy: “We're going to reduce traffic by 10%. It's at. We've reduced…”

“And so if we have staffing triggers in locations in the American airspace, what we'll do is we will slow traffic, which means you'll have delays, and then airlines might cancel flights. You saw that We've. We're going to reduce traffic by 10%. It's at. We've reduced it by 4% right now. Next Friday, it's going to be at 10% to reduce the pressure on controllers. The problem is that as I try to reduce the pressure by lowering flights, I have more controllers that keep not coming to work. And so the pressure goes back up again.” (03:38–03:49)

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