US shutdown: Trump administration to cut flight capacity by 10% across 40 ‘high

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it will cut the scheduled capacity for flights by 10% at 40 “high-volume” markets across the US from Friday morning as the federal government grapples with an ongoing historic shutdown. Secretary of transportation Sean Duffy and federal aviation administration boss Bryan Bedford announced the decision on Wednesday afternoon. The change will affect commercial, private and even space flight and could ground as many as 4,000 flights nationwide. Duffy and Bedford did not yet reveal which airports would be affected, New York Post reported. The shutdown, which became the longest-ever on Wednesday, exacerbated an existing shortage of air traffic controllers who have been unpaid since the start of the shutdown on October 1. “This i