US airlines are kicking off an unprecedented effort to shake off the travel chaos caused by the government shutdown and reboot their networks in time for the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period.
Carriers large and small are adept at bouncing back from all manner of travel disruptions, from bad weather to technology outages. But after the longest federal closure in US history, the complex work of rearranging pilot and crew schedules is made even more knotty by lingering government-mandated flight cuts and unpredictability over when air traffic controllers who have been absent will return to their posts.
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