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When the shutdown ends, air travel will still take a long time to get back to normal

While the government shutdown may soon be in the rearview mirror, it could leave air travel in a chokehold for months, and possibly years, to come.

Until a deal is officially inked, airlines must continue to follow the Federal Aviation Administration’s emergency order to incrementally reduce flight capacity at 40 major US airports, up to 10%. Starting Tuesday, 6% of flights will be cut.

The order calls for airlines to cancel flights seven days before they are scheduled to fly, and once they are canceled and passengers are informed, they can’t easily be reinstated.

“There are significant challenges with these cancellations inside an airline, because it’s not easy to cancel randomly every day on 10% of our schedules and keep preserving those cancelations,” said Eash Sundaram, former chief digital and technology officer of JetBlue Airways. He now is the president of a technology venture fund called Utpata Ventures. “The airlines should be thinking about how hard it’s going to hit them in the next two to three weeks on the cancellations, and then the recovery process happens after that.”

Senate moves toward ending shutdown as travelers deal with major flight disruptions

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Travel disruptions at major airports are expected to worsen this week with airlines already canceling nearly 1,600 flights for Monday and nearly 1,000 for Tuesday as Congress works to reach a deal to reopen the federal government.

A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass all 12 appropriations bills needed to fund the government or a continuing resolution (CR), which typically maintains funding levels while lawmakers work to complete their spending bills.

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