Trump orders air traffic controllers back, vows new system

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U.S. President Donald Trump says a new air traffic control system will be set up “relatively quickly,” while ordering air traffic controllers to return to work as flight cancellations continue amid the government shutdown.

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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says his administration will begin setting up a new air traffic control

00:06system in the coming weeks, promising it will be built relatively quickly. Trump has ordered

00:12air traffic controllers back to work as travelers face another day of flight cancellations amid

00:18the government shutdown. Trump announced $10,000 bonuses for controllers who have worked through

00:26the 41-day shutdown, saying he would welcome resignations from the rest and threatened to cut

00:33pay for those who refuse to return. The shutdown, the longest in the U.S. history, has forced 13,000

00:40air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration, TSA, agents to work

00:47without pay. The Federal Aviation Administration says between 20 and 40 percent of controllers

00:53have been absent each day at the country's 30 busiest airports. On Sunday alone, nearly 3,000

01:01flights were canceled and more than 11,000 delayed, the worst travel disruption since the shutdown began

01:07on October 1.

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