The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted all restrictions on commercial flights at Boston's Logan International Airport following the end of the longest government shutdown in history.

Over the weekend, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that normal operations would resume across the National Airspace System on Monday, Nov. 17, at 6 a.m. ET.

The FAA’s flight-reduction emergency order at 40 major U.S. airports took effect on Nov. 7 – a measure Duffy said was necessary to keep the country’s airspace safe and running smoothly weeks into the shutdown.

Most employees at the FAA and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) were expected to work without pay through the shutdown . Federal authorities reported an uptick in air traffic controller absences, wi

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