{"id":1616,"date":"2025-11-09T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:56:01","slug":"duffy-15-to-20-air-traffic-controllers-retiring-daily-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/duffy-15-to-20-air-traffic-controllers-retiring-daily-during-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffy: &#039;15 to 20&#039; air traffic controllers retiring daily during shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/sean-duffy\/\">Sean Duffy&nbsp;<\/a>said Sunday that \u201c15 to 20\u201d air traffic controllers are retiring daily amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5597048-live-updates-trump-government-shtudown-flights-snap\/\">the government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I\u2019m now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring,\u201d Duffy told CNN\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jake-tapper\/\">Jake Tapper&nbsp;<\/a>on \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cSo, it\u2019s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this is going to live on in air travel, well beyond the time frame that this government opens back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic controllers are set to miss their second consecutive paycheck on Tuesday, with many missing work and taking second jobs.\u00a0Duffy added that 81 controller staffing shortages were reported at facilities across the country on Saturday, an increase of 20 such instances relative to Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the shortages, the Federal Aviation Administration directed all commercial airlines to cut flights by 4 percent on Friday.\u00a0In a press conference\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5591989-government-shutdown-flight-disruptions\/\">announcing<\/a><\/u>\u00a0the move on Thursday, Duffy called the measure \u201cproactive\u201d and an attempt to keep the country\u2019s airspace safe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 4:17 p.m. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary&nbsp;Sean Duffy&nbsp;said Sunday that \u201c15 to 20\u201d air traffic controllers are retiring daily amid&nbsp;the government shutdown. \u201cI ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}