Washington - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced that beginning Friday morning, it will reduce air traffic across 40 major markets in the country by ten percent. Officially, it says this is about safety. In truth, it shows what happens when the state itself collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford spoke of \"uncharted territory.\" In 35 years, he said, he had never experienced a moment when they were forced to cut the number of flights so drastically just to maintain control. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history, in effect since October 1, has long overstretched the nerves of the aviation sector. While political Washington sinks into endless budget disputes, thousands of employees at airports across the country are under pressure - unpaid shifts, double duty, exhaustion. Safety, the foundation of American aviation, has become a matter of negotiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Thursday evening, the FAA is expected to announce which airports will be affected. According to estimates by the analytics firm Cirium, up to 1,800 flights could be canceled - the equivalent of around 268,000 seats. A national domino effect is inevitable. Delays and cancellations are already piling up, while passengers search in vain for answers that can hardly exist in this situation. We can confirm ourselves, it is pure chaos in Trump culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bedford made it clear that even if the shutdown were to end before Friday, normal operations would not immediately resume. The recovery of the system takes time - time that no one has. Air traffic controllers, the backbone of the entire airspace, have been working unpaid for more than a month. Many work six days a week, some sleep in their cars because they can no longer afford to commute. When one drops out, it creates gaps that are almost impossible to close in the highly sensitive network of airspace management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n