CHARLOTTE, NC – An end to the longest government shutdown in history is now in sight but the FAA is still ordering airlines to cut 10% of flights.

The uncertainty has more travelers taking their trips from the skies to the ground leaning on back up plans like driving to their destinations.

Rental car company Hertz has reported a 20% spike in one-way rentals. Going into the shutdown, the air traffic control system was already down more than 3,000 workers.

“The longer this goes on, some people have just decided to retire,” Anthony Schifano, President of NATCA CLT said. “We saw an increase in retirement rate nationwide versus what it was doing a month or two ago.”

Schifano says he expects the system to bounce back to normal operations soon after the shutdown ends.

“We’ve been moving the

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