# US Airspace Reopens as Official Calls for Emergency Funding

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121418823869853818
- Source account: [@EricLDaugh](https://x.com/EricLDaugh)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-11-14
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding) identified the problem. We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational right now.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=4) And so at 8:15 tonight, uh, Eastern Time, we've opened up the airspace.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=9) Now, does that mean every flight is gonna fly?

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=12) Right now, it's, it's gonna be slow, right?

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=14) So if, if you're watching, you're at an airport, um, check with your airline.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=19) Uh, it depends on do we have crews available?

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=21) Uh, do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight?

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=25) 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.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=31) If not, we're gonna, uh, start tomorrow morning with our airline partners, um, moving those aircraft.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=37) But it's gonna take us some time to unwind what's happened, uh, this afternoon.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=42) 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.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=52) 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.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=62) We are gonna give those aircraft a priority.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=65) Uh, so hopefully tomorrow, we are gonna start to see, uh, far better movement.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=70) But, um, I'm gonna-- we'll take your questions.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=73) This is an emergency. This is an emergency.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=76) I want Congress to give us emergency funding.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WD1cL3u2TgJ6/en/us-airspace-reopens-as-official-calls-for-emergency-funding?t=79) This is bipartisan. This is America.