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Three of the main United States airlines have announced that starting this Saturday They will cancel about 700 flights to comply with the 4% cut in activity at the country’s main airports, which came into effect to mitigate the lack of air traffic controllers caused by the longest government shutdown in history.
Southwest Airlines said that on Saturday it will cancel 100 flights and on Sunday another 150 at 24 airports in the country and added in a statement that “the vast majority of its flights scheduled until Monday” will be affected by the capacity cuts and that they seek to mitigate the damage caused to customers.
For its part, United y Americanthe main US airlines, assured that each will cancel 220 local flights this weekend nationwide, with a view to prioritizing available capacity on international flights. In addition, United informed the network CNN which already has a scheduled cut of 190 flights on Monday and another 269 for Tuesday.
According to Cirium, cited by The New York Times, interruptions are relatively minor at the moment and, if current figures hold, this would be the 72nd worst day in terms of cancellations since the beginning of last year in the country.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported staffing problems at O’Hare and the airports in Ontario (California) and Newark (New Jersey), which serves New York and has consistently suffered from a shortage of controllers in recent weeks, until having to temporarily stop all its operations on the weekend.
The closure has already left a loss of 2,000 air traffic controllers who, according to the authorities, have decided to look for other temporary jobs due to lack of payment.
“We saw controllers working six days a week, ten-hour days,” said Duffy this Friday, who insisted that this pressure on these professionals leaves figures that “although they were not alarming, they were worrying,” which is why he defended the reduction as a way to anticipate problems.
Democrats condition the extension of subsidies to the health program Obamacarewhich will expire at the end of the year, to his support for the measure to end the shutdown. The Republican majority (53) needs votes from the opposition bench (45) for the proposal to pass with the necessary 60 supports.