Why flight disruptions are likely to persist after the government shutdown ends

Commercial air travel around the U.S. isn't expected to return to normal immediately after the U.S. government reopens, according to aviation experts.

The government shutdown has snarled airport operations across the country, leading to flight delays and cancellations. While a vote to reopen the government would come as a relief to consumers, as well as to air traffic controllers and other Transportation Department personnel tasked with working without pay during the impasse, the system will take some time to recover.

"My guess is it's going to take a couple weeks," aviation security expert Sheldon Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told CBS News. "They have to get people back in places, airplanes back in places. This is non