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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Air Traffic Controllers' and Pilots' Groups Demand End to Government Shutdown [Watch (HLS stream): Air Traffic Controllers' and Pilots' Groups Demand End to Government Shutdown](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/634dTJhX.m3u8) (2:50)  _Published 2025-10-14. Little progress has been made to end the government shutdown as it enters day 14. Leaders of organizations representing pilots and air traffic controllers are demanding an end to the shutdown to alleviate an already stressed airspace system._ --- Oct 21, 2025 9:20 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Longest Shutdown in History Ends After Democrats Relent on Healthcare Demands](/video/ihtevwp5/) ### Longest Shutdown in History Ends After Democrats Relent on Healthcare Demands [Senate Takes First Step Toward Ending the Government Shutdown](/video/wnxsI1Rh/) ### Senate Takes First Step Toward Ending the Government Shutdown ['We Cannot Even Calculate the Level of Risk.' Air Traffic Controllers Issue Dire Warning About Air Safety During the Shutdown](/video/GRpsTN7Z/) ### 'We Cannot Even Calculate the Level of Risk.' Air Traffic Controllers Issue Dire Warning About Air Safety During the Shutdown --- ## Transcript One of the first to address the fact that today marks the first day that air traffic controllers have a completely different focus. Today, for their first loss of pay, air traffic controllers are out, moving over 45,000 flights today. 3 million passengers. Tons of cargo. That keeps America moving. And their focus is now on when they'll receive pay again. We asked these these controllers to do heroic efforts. They're unsung heroes. And yet every single day that they show up to work now, they don't know when they'll get paid again until the shutdown's over. And so many can say, Will you get paid eventually? Well, that doesn't pay the bills today. They can't plan for it. And this introduces a new risk to aviation. Air traffic controllers are supposed to mitigate this. Air traffic controllers ensure that risk is out of the system, so that those who fly and those who serve, that they are safe. And this brings a risk where their focus is now on when I get off my shift today, do I have to go and drive Uber tonight? So that way I can put gas in the car or food on the table for my family. They have to go out and now their focus is on how do I defer a mortgage. So our message is simple. Our message is clear. This job is hard enough five days away. But they have to do it six days. 10,800 certified controllers where there should be 14,633. They work six days a week, ten hours a day, and they usually only have four days off in an entire month. Those are already heroic efforts. It's hard to believe that those that keep us safe and secure, whether it's the air traffic controllers, the TSA agents, security safety inspectors, these folks are working without a paycheck, and they're expected to keep us safe and secure every day. And the traveling and shipping public, this is great. We send lawmakers to D.C. to do their job. Fund the government, end the shutdown and get folks back to work. Get these folks paid. Imagine doing such a stressful job and wondering if you're going to be able to make your next mortgage payment while you're doing that job, or wondering what the next trip to the grocery store is going to look like for those folks that that are missing a paycheck with the promise to get paid later. It's just not acceptable. And the shutdown now. And reopen the government. Get these folks back, uh, back paid and properly planned. I commend Secretary Duffy and Administrator Bedford and the fact that he has been able to keep training going for the first time ever in a government shutdown, but that's only going to last for approximately 17 more days. Every day that this drags on, we're not focused on progress. We're focused on how do we get out of the shutdown, how long can air traffic controllers last? If somebody needs to figure out the end of this story, the American worker that lives paycheck to paycheck was, which is almost every air traffic controller cannot last without pay. It's that simple. And so stop waiting for us to be the ones that break in order to somehow fix the government. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Air Traffic Controllers' and Pilots' Groups Demand End to Government Shutdown","description":"Little progress has been made to end the government shutdown as it enters day 14. Leaders of organizations representing pilots and air traffic controllers are demanding an end to the shutdown to alleviate an already stressed airspace system. 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