Due to the longest shutdown of the federal government in American history, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that he will be reducing the total number of flights by 10 percent at 40 major airports. The move begins on Friday morning, and will impact roughly 3,500 to 4,000 flights daily.

“This is proactive,” Duffy said in a news conference. “We don’t want the horse out of the barn and then [to] look back and say there were issues we could have taken that we didn’t. So we are going to proactively make decisions that keep the space, the airspace safe.”

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford said that the FAA will be meeting with leaders in the airline community to craft a plan for moving forward with the reductions.

“As we slice the data more

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