Transportation secretary assures Christmas travel safety despite air traffic control shortages

Transportation secretary assures Christmas travel safety despite air traffic control shortages

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy insists it will be "safe to fly" as millions of Americans head into the Christmas travel rush — even as the nation’s top aviation regulator delivered a stark warning that U.S. air traffic control towers will never reach full staffing levels."You saw that as we were getting into the last days of the shutdown, we reduced the capacity of airlines by 10% because we saw the trend lines going in the wrong direction.…