So even if the government opens up tomorrow, you're dealing with the independent decisions of 50,000 TSA agents and 14,000 controllers when they come back to work. And The reason that the FAA has mandated 10% of flights be canceled is they're looking at the data and seeing that these short staffed air traffic controllers, there's an increased risk to safety. So they're saying, all right, if we don't have full staffing, we got to reduce the number of flights. So in a week, do I expect things to go back to normal? (18:08–18:20)
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Asserts that the FAA mandated 10% of flights be canceled due to short-staffed air traffic controllers.
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