At the Last Minute, Government Shutdown Flight Restrictions Came for the Private Jets

As Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to reopen the government on Monday night, helping to pass a budget criticized for “making the largest cut to Medicaid in American history to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires in American history,” those billionaires’ preferred mode of travel was in the midst of a major setback: they’re reportedly banned at 12 major airports.

On Sunday, Ed Bolen president and CEO of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), which is a lobby for the private jet business, said his organization’s press release that along with the previously announced flight restrictions at 40 U.S. airports were additional restrictions that “will effectively prohibit business aviation operations at 12 of those airports, disproportionately impacting general aviat