US Airspace Reopens as Official Calls for Emergency Funding

identified the problem. We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational right now.

And so at 8:15 tonight, uh, Eastern Time, we've opened up the airspace.

Now, does that mean every flight is gonna fly?

Right now, it's, it's gonna be slow, right?

So if, if you're watching, you're at an airport, um, check with your airline.

Uh, it depends on do we have crews available?

Uh, do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight?

We're gonna try to move as many of those as we can tonight if we have the capacity with crews to, to, to move those flights.

If not, we're gonna, uh, start tomorrow morning with our airline partners, um, moving those aircraft.

But it's gonna take us some time to unwind what's happened, uh, this afternoon.

Uh, finally, with general aviation, uh, if we have, uh, aircraft that's moving six people, uh, that's a, that's a lower priority.

But this weekend, we, we have movements of, of aircraft that, uh, are general aviation that might have, uh, 60, 80, 100 people on those aircraft.

We are gonna give those aircraft a priority.

Uh, so hopefully tomorrow, we are gonna start to see, uh, far better movement.

But, um, I'm gonna-- we'll take your questions.

This is an emergency. This is an emergency.

I want Congress to give us emergency funding.

This is bipartisan. This is America.