DC-area travelers brace for disruptions as the FAA cuts flights

As the nation’s airlines are being directed to cut flights to deal with what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says are concerns over aviation safety, airline passengers are becoming fed up.

Duffy ordered the first round of flight cutbacks Wednesday, and is promising even deeper schedule reductions — possibly as high as 20% — by next week.

Duffy said cuts are necessary because about 10% of air traffic controllers across the country are calling in sick since they are mandated to work during the shutdown, but are not being paid.

Before the government shutdown, experts were saying the nation’s air traffic control system was already stretched too thin with an estimated 13,000 controllers, but a system that needed 15,000 cont

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