Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday that US air travel is recovering after the disruptions caused by the more than month-long government funding shutdown.

“Yesterday was one of the best days our airspace had in a while with just a few air traffic controllers calling out from work,” he said on his X account on Friday.

“We are reviewing the data provided and working hard for a return to normal airspace operations,” he added.

Flight traffic limits had been set in place as a consequence of the record-long US budget shutdown, which began on October 1 and ended on Wednesday.

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees were furloughed while others, considered essential, were called to work without pay.

Among the latter were thousands of air traffic controllers, but absenteeism i

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