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U.S. airlines began canceling hundreds of flights Thursday due to the Federal Aviation Administration’s order to reduce traffic at the country’s busiest airports starting Friday because of the government shutdown.

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00:30I think it was a expected decision to reduce air traffic. I think 10% in 40 airports or something like that. I think I saw it coming. It's an inconvenience for passengers, but it's bigger inconvenience for the people that are not getting paid and many other things that are not working properly.
01:00The situation has been going on. I feel really bad for the TSA agents and everybody else, air traffic controllers, that are being impacted. So, in a way, I think we saw it coming.
01:24And all I can do myself as a traveler is when I get in the plane and when I get to the airport, I thank everybody and say, hey, thank you, because I know it's rough. Right. So.
01:34So in these past four weeks that I've been traveling for business and other things, every time I get to the airport, I'm like, am I going to get to my destination? Am I going to make it back from my destination?
02:02And so far, every one of my trips has been going OK. This is the last one of my four trips back to back. So I hope I just make it home back back to Minnesota. OK.
02:15I have like mixed emotions, but I think my main focus is they need to get back to work. They need to get this fixed. They're going to hurt a lot of innocent people.
02:32I'm not worried about getting to Florida, but I might be concerned in 10 days about getting home.
02:46Traffic, if you don't have people manning the towers and TSA, it can cause a problem. So I think part of it is for safety. But the other part of it is trying to put pressure on Congress
02:58or each party putting pressure on the other to try to get decision made.
03:05So I'm not worried yet. I might be in 10 days, but I might have to turn into a beach bum for a couple of days. So I guess we'll see.
03:12So I guess we'll see.
03:42Let's get back to you.
03:44Let's get started.
03:45It's pretty good.
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