The Federal Aviation Administration warned that California’s Hollywood Burbank Airport will not have any air traffic controllers manning the towers for several hours Monday evening as the government shutdown forces scores of airport staff to work without pay.
The mass shortage was set to start at 4:15 p.m. until around 10 p.m. local time, ABC News reported.
The FAA assured that it was trying to pull in additional staff sooner than 10 p.m., but couldn’t guarantee the gap would be filled in time. 3
The Post reached out to the FAA for confirmation, but received an automatic reply that the press office was shut down due to the “lapse in funding” shuttering non-exempt activities.
Air traffic controllers at the airport told ABC 7 that they would be leaving promptly at 4:15 p.m. and th