Up to 20% of flights could be canceled in coming weeks if government shutdown drags on

This is not gonna fly!

Up to 20% of flights could be cut in coming weeks if the government shutdown drags on, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Friday.

“If this continues, and I have more controllers who decide they can’t come to work, can’t control the airspace, but instead have to take a second job — with that, you might see 10% …. go to 15% or 20%,” Duffy said at news event in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill.

The Federal Aviation Administration began cutting flights Friday at 40 major airports — causing more than 800 to be canceled — due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.

On Friday, Duffy later clarified to The Hill that he was speaking theoretically and that there’s no official plan to cut flights by 20%.

“Could it go there? That’s possible. There’s no plan for that,” Duffy said.