SALT LAKE CITY — Travelers making their way through Salt Lake City International Airport can expect to see a group of people handing out leaflets about the ongoing government shutdown.

Those people are members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and according to the group, they aim to inform travelers how the shutdown is detrimental to the National Airspace System and introduces unnecessary risk.

The NATCA says their members will conduct the leafletting at nearly 20 airports across the country, including Salt Lake City International, Atlanta Hartsfield, Boston Logan, and Denver International, among others.

The shutdown is in its fourth week after starting at midnight on October 1. Today marks the first zero paycheck for air traffic controllers. This, as the group says,

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