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Sean Duffy: “Yesterday that number was 24%.”

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

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Sean Duffy sounds alarm over growing travel problems amid shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 11:52

This year, on average, the delays that are associated with staffing triggers with air traffic controllers is 5%. On Sunday, 44% of the delays were because of staffing shortages. Yesterday that number was 24%. So we're seeing, you know, the numbers move day by day in its location to location. You know, we saw the last couple of days lax, we saw Atlanta, we've seen other airports as well. (11:52–11:55)

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Asserts that 24% of delays yesterday were due to staffing shortages.

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