Starting Monday at 6 a.m., flight schedules at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports will return to normal for the first time in more than a week, according to federal officials.

Authorities said air traffic controller staffing has improved enough to end an emergency order that required airlines to cut domestic flights by 10% at 40 major U.S. airports, including airports that serve New York City.

The Federal Aviation Administration started enacting flight reductions earlier this month amid what officials called a “historic” staffing crisis triggered by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Thousands of air traffic controllers had been working without pay.

But over the weekend, staffing “trigger events” dropped dramatically, allowing the FAA to lift the restrictions, federal of

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