FAA announces 10% flight reduction nationwide, impacting Fresno Yosemite International Airport

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Long lines and hold times, with thousands of flights to beryllium chopped per day.

Amid the country's longest authorities shutdown, the FAA announced a 10% simplification successful flights astatine 40 large airports nationwide.

Air Traffic Controllers Union President Jerry O'Gorman says, "You can't tally a strategy connected the backs of people, unpaid workers and expect it to past precise long."

From Chicago to Dallas, Las Vegas to LAX, each of the nationalist formation options retired of Fresno are connected the database to look reductions.

It was creaseless sailing for Matt Cook arriving successful Fresno from Denver, "Security astatine Denver, we were disquieted we had a 6:50 formation this morning. We near the location astatine 3:30 and we got done determination beauteous quick."

But with Denver connected the database of impacted airports, he's acrophobic astir his formation backmost home.

"Let's anticipation travel Sunday, erstwhile I travel home, it doesn't hinder. I mightiness if I person to enactment an other time successful Fresno. I anticipation I tin find thing amusive to bash for the day," Cook says.

FAA officials telephone the determination a proactive determination to support a harmless system.

Now implicit a period without pay, Fresno Air Traffic Controllers stay connected the frontlines, contiguous receiving their 2nd $0 paystub.

"Our past afloat paycheck was September 30th, now. There are radical who've had to bash things connected the broadside to bring successful wealth that their household needs. It's decidedly a daunting roadworthy ahead," says O'Gorman.

With looming cancellations, travelers person rights.

According to the Department of Transportation, passengers are entitled to a refund if a formation is cancelled but you won't get your wealth backmost if you take to instrumentality an alternate oregon delayed flight.

Doug Johnson with AAA recommends travelers see buying formation insurance, getting TSA Pre-Check oregon conscionable opting to drive, particularly arsenic we adjacent the Thanksgiving holiday.

I deliberation we saw past play a batch of cancellations and delays astatine SFO, truthful already this has an interaction adjacent earlier the simplification of flights again; it's going to beryllium a agelong clip astatine the airport. You mightiness person a longer-than-expected hold times," says Johnson.

Americans nationwide are warned that they indispensable beryllium prepared to beryllium patient.

"I anticipation this gets resolved soon, conscionable for everybody that is is nether a national paycheck, Cook said. "I anticipation it gets resolved and they tin resume their lives arsenic normal."

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