Close to 18,000 FAA workers furloughed in US government shutdown

Roughly 18,000 FAA employees have been furloughed as part of the partial US federal government shutdown that began Dec. 22, affecting non-essential personnel in posts ranging from airman certificate issuance to aviation rulemaking. The partial federal government shutdown is the third in 2018 and...

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