Travelers to the Hollywood Burbank Airport experienced mild delays early Tuesday as the airport’s traffic control tower resumed normal operations following an hours-long shutdown driven by staffing shortages cropping up at airports across the country.

The flight tracking website FlightAware listed about a dozen weather delays at the airport Tuesday morning, Oct. 7, with the average delay lasting about 30 minutes, but by early afternoon nearly all flights were on schedule once again.

A spokesperson for the airport did not expect a repeat of the conditions that led to 56 delays and 12 cancellations Monday.

Then, a mixture of sick calls, last-minute day-off requests and staffing issues had left the airport without any air traffic controllers from 4:15 p.m. to 10 p.m., according to NBCLA

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