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The FAA is reducing required flight cuts at 40 airports from 6% to 3%.

Air traffic controller staffing shortages have significantly decreased since the end of the federal government shutdown.

The Federal Aviation Administration is scaling back flight capacity reductions as air traffic controllers return to work, two days after the longest government shutdown in history ended .

The 40 airports under the FAA's mandate to reduce capacity , including Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, must cut 3% of its daily flights as of 6 a.m. Nov. 15.

That's down from when the mandate took effect on Nov. 7 , when the airports were ordered to reduce 4% of flights. By Nov. 11, the FAA ordered the airports to reduce 6% of flights. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said

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