Flight delays could get worse as the US government shutdown continues and air traffic controllers miss their first full paycheck. | Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Due to the longest shutdown of the federal government in American history, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that he will be reducing the total number of flights by 10 percent at 40 major airports. The move begins on Friday morning, and will impact roughly 3,500 to 4,000 flights daily. “This is proactive,” Duffy said in a news conference. “We don’t want the horse out of the barn and then [to] l...

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