An up-close look at two flights offer a glimpse of air travel if the shutdown doesn’t end.

There's hope the end of the longest federal government shutdown in history.

When my flight from Phoenix touched down in Detroit at 8:20 a.m. Monday, it was a homecoming that had been marked by a long delay on a flight to Arizona, and then a canceled flight back on Sunday, that included some finagling to rebook, and another long wait — and additional delays — at the airport there.

Even before leaving sunny Arizona sometime in early morning hours on Monday, a fellow flight passenger, Matt Johnson, told me he’d be "very happy" to be back in Detroit, despite the Michigan snow.

The 44-year-old Toledo resident was still wearing shorts and a University of Michigan sweatshirt. His exhausted wife and teen

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