Air traffic controllers would continue coming to work, but training would halt, and the agency would miss out on $50 million a day in tax revenue.
Congress has struggled in the past to agree on a path forward for the agency. After the authorizing legislation expired in 2007,For a two-week period in 2011, Congress deadlocked even on a short-term measure, and the law underpinning the FAA lapsed.“This is no way to run the best aviation system in the world,” said Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary at the time.Back then, about 4,000 FAA workers were furloughed, and work on federally funded airport construction projects was disrupted.
The U.S. Travel Association estimated that a government shutdown could cost the U.S. travel economy as much as $140 million a day in economic losses. Southwest Airlines declined to specify what it would do if the taxes expired, saying it expects Congress to pass an FAA bill. Other airlines did not respond to requests for comment.At the Transportation Security Administration, 59,000 of the agency’s 62,000 employees are considered essential and would continue working in the event of a shutdown, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said Tuesday. But he warned that an extended shutdown could mean longer screening times at airports.
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