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Flight cancellations were again piling up on Monday as air traffic controller shortages, worsened by the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown , snarled air travel coast to coast and President Donald Trump threatened to dock air traffic controllers' pay if they didn't show up to work.

On Monday, 1,432 of the 25,733 scheduled flights across the country were canceled, around 5.5% "and growing," according to aviation-data firm Cirium.

Last week, the Trump administration ordered airlines to cut flights at 40 major U.S. airports starting with 4% reductions last Friday and ramping up to 10% by this coming Friday, Nov. 14.

"All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!!," Trump said in a post on Trut

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