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FAA has lifted emergency flight reductions used to ease staffing pressure during government shutdown
The flight reductions were lifted at 6 a.m. Monday after the FAA said there's been a steady decline in staffing-trigger events.
The FAA has lifted its flight-reduction emergency order and allowed normal operations to resume across the National Airspace System.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it is lifting all restrictions on commercial flights that were imposed during the government shutdown.
The restrictions will be lifted Monday, transportation authorities said, after mandating cuts during the shutdown that caused thousands of cancellations and delays.
Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration says it is lifting all restrictions on commercial flights that were imposed during the government shutdown at 40 major U.S. airports
The FAA had ordered airlines to reduce travel as air traffic controller staffing levels grew strained, but the restriction is now ended.
As the federal shutdown dragged out into the longest shutdown in U.S. history, the FAA ordered a reduction of domestic flights in order to ease the burden on thinning airport and air traffic control staffing at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, which had to cut back personnel due to lack of funding and pay.
The Federal Aviation Administration late Sunday said it would end mandated cuts in domestic flights at 40 major U.S. airports effective at 6 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) Monday, easing restrictions that had been imposed over air traffic control concerns during the federal shutdown.