FAA Swears They’ll Cut US Air Flights by 10% This Week Because of the Government Shutdown

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/05/faa-swears-theyll-cut-us-air-flights-by-10-this-week-because-of-the-government-shutdown/Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump administration will start cutting US airline flight capacity by 10% starting Friday thanks to the government shutdown, though it’s unclear whether SFO flights will be affected. Congratulations, everybody, we are now enduring the longest US government shutdown ever, surpassing the mark of (of course) Trump’s last government shutdown in 2018-19. And while this is affecting many Americans in many painful ways, one very prominent pain point is a shortage of air traffic controllers, who are working without pay, and understandably calling in sick like mad.   Now the Associated Press reports