Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Sunday warned that air travel will worsen before the holidays as the U.S. enters the third day of the FAA's flight reductions .

"It’s only going to get worse," Duffy said in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."

"I look to the two weeks before Thanksgiving. You’re going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle."

Duffy added that a "substantial" number of people will miss celebrating the holidays with their families due to travel delays because of the FAA-mandated flight cancellations at 40 high-traffic airports that went into effect on Friday.

The mandate to cut thousands of flights across the country comes as the FAA deals with shortages of air traffic controllers amid the dragging goverment shutdown. As essential worker

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