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Sean Duffy: “We've gone up as high as 53% of the delays have been because…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Published | Video Starts at 24:20

And so it's, it's different every day. So the average on a day is about 5% of our delays would come from staffing shortages with air traffic controllers. We've gone up as high as 53% of the delays have been because of staffing shortages. And that number moves every single day. Because as I mentioned before, we don't have one. One facility that's a problem every single day. (24:20–24:26)

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Asserts that at times, up to 53% of flight delays are due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.

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