Airlines canceled 1,000+ flights across the U.S. on Tuesday. Locally, RNO is seeing a few delays. Check your airline before you leave home.
The Federal Aviation Administration has reduced flights as some air traffic controllers — unpaid for weeks — have stopped showing up for work.
The FAA slows down or even stops flights temporarily anytime it is short on controllers or if there is an equipment problem.
The FAA is already short-staffed - federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system.
Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired.
Air traffic controllers are back at work at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, a week after a co-worker tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The pilot of a chartered plane with 77 people aboard told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel moments before crashing into the Andes.