The FAA will slash 10% of all flights in 40 major cities starting Friday due to the government shutdown. This will amount to approximately 44,000 flights per day just before the holiday season. Bah humbug! Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says the move is “proactive.” There’s a shortage of air traffic controllers, and the few who are still working haven’t been paid since October 1. Proactive, of course, is one way to describe grounding the country’s travel industry before Thanksgiving. Another might be: inevitable. You can only expect so many people to guide metal tubes through the sky on empty stomachs and IOUs before something gives. If the shutdown isn’t resolved soon, expect cascading delays, cancellations, and finger-pointing. Congress may be comfortable flying private, but the rest of America is about to spend the holidays grounded and increasingly pissed off. The post Shutdown Takes Off—Flights Don’t appeared first on Redacted.