• Air travel may finally improve as the US' longest-ever government shutdown nears an end. • Flight cancellations and delays have improved after earlier mass disruptions at US airports. • Experts say full recovery could take up to two weeks, just ahead of the Thanksgiving travel surge.

Maybe Thanksgiving travel won't be total chaos after all.

Flyers have been on a rollercoaster since the government shutdown on October 1, which has forced air traffic controllers to work without pay for 43 days.

Things began to further spiral on Friday, when government officials started cutting 10% of flights across 40 US airports to manage traffic.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by the mass cancellations, and experts warned the busy holiday season would further strain the airspac

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