After a week and a half of flight cancellations across the Bay Area, the skyways are returning to normal after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted its flight reductions beginning Monday morning.

The FAA announced Sunday that it was lifting its previous mandate that air traffic be reduced by 10% due to air traffic controller fatigue, citing a safety review and “steady decline of staffing-trigger events in air traffic control facilities,” according to a statement from the agency. Operations returned to normal on Monday at 6 a.m.

The air traffic reduction, which began Nov. 7, largely impacted 40 high-traffic airports across the country, including San Francisco International Airport and Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport. As the reductions went on, the impacts trickled to San Jose Mine

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