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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANuARY 21, 2019
Travel industry fears damage from government shutdown
By DAVID KOENIG
and CHRISTOPHER
RUGABER
Associated Press
America’s busiest airport,
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jack-
son International, is a blur of
activity on the best of days.
But an extra layer of anxi-
ety gripped the airport Fri-
day, the eve of a three-day
holiday weekend. The par-
tial government shutdown
— the longest ever — has
thinned the ranks of federal
workers who staff airport
security lines. And some
travelers had braced for the
worst.
“I have a 3 o’clock flight,
and I arrived at 10:15 a.m.,”
Beth Lambert said while
waiting to check in at a
Delta Air Lines counter as
her 5-year-old, Michael,
rode around on his wheeled
bag like a scooter. “We’re
going to be hanging out for
a while.”
The scene at most of the
nation’s airports has so far
been marked more by con-
cerned passengers show-
ing up early than by missed
flights. Longer lines are evi-
dent at some airports. But
delays resulting from a rise
in federal security screen-
ers calling in sick have been
slight.
Yet concern is quickly
growing. President Donald
Trump and Democrats in
Congress remain far apart
over Trump’s insistence on
funding for a wall along
the Mexican border as the
price of reopening the gov-
ernment. With the two sides
trading taunts and avoiding
talks, travel industry ana-
lysts and economists have
been calculating the poten-
tial damage should the shut-
down drag into February or
beyond.
Airlines and hotels would
suffer. So would parks and
restaurants that cater to
travelers. And, eventually,
the broader U.S. economy,
already absorbing a trade
war with China and a global
economic slowdown, would
endure another blow.
The travel and tourism
industries generate about
$1.6 trillion in U.S. eco-
nomic activity — one-
twelfth of the economy —
and 1 in 20 jobs, according
to the U.S. Department of
Commerce. Macroeconomic
Advisers says it now expects
the economy to expand at
just a 1.4 percent annual rate
in the first three months of
this year, down from its pre-
vious forecast of 1.6 percent,
because of reduced govern-
ment spending during the
shutdown.
America’s air-travel sys-
tem faced its sternest test
over the weekend, which
coincides
with
Martin
Luther King Jr. Day today, a
federal holiday.
On Friday, the Transpor-
tation Security Adminis-
tration sent a small team of
extra screeners to beef up
checkpoints at the airport in
Newark, New Jersey, which
has had among the lon-
gest lines in the country last
week.
The TSA predicted it will
screen over 8 million pas-
sengers between Friday and
today, up 10.8 percent from
last year’s MLK weekend.
And it will do so with fewer
screeners. On Thursday,
the TSA said 6.4 percent of
screeners missed work —
nearly double the 3.8 per-
cent rate on the same day in
2018.
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Travelers organize their luggage before entering a security checkpoint at Miami International Airport on Friday.
A TSA spokesman said
the agency was offer-
ing overtime to screen-
ers, though those work-
ers wouldn’t be paid — for
their regular pay or for over-
time— until the shutdown
eventually ends.
Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta
International,
home to Delta Air Lines,
has likely been the hardest
hit airport. Delta said this
week that the shutdown will
cost it $25 million in Janu-
ary because fewer federal
employees and contractors
will be flying. By contrast,
United Airlines, which has a
substantial presence around
Washington, D.C., said it
hasn’t felt much impact yet.
But the airlines fear that
if the shutdown doesn’t end
soon, more TSA agents will
call in sick or quit. A short-
age of screeners would
cause security lines to swell.
Air traffic controllers, who
are also working with-
out pay, say they, too, are
short-staffed. If the control-
ler shortage became severe
enough, the government
could restrict the number
of flights, though some ana-
lysts think that’s unlikely.
“Luckily this is the low
season — January is one of
the weakest months of the
year,” said Savanthi Syth,
an airline analyst for Ray-
mond James. “This spilling
into February is a real con-
cern. The risk is that the lon-
ger this drags out, it might
cause some passengers to
say, ‘I don’t want to deal
with all the hassle, maybe I
won’t take that trip.’”
Consumers are, in fact,
taking a dimmer view of the
economy, in part because
of the shutdown. A mea-
sure of consumer confi-
dence fell this month by the
most in more than six years,
according to the University
of Michigan, which con-
ducts the survey. If Amer-
icans were to cut back on
travel and other discre-
tionary spending, it would
weaken consumer spending,
the U.S. company’s primary
fuel.
Laura Mandala, who
runs a travel and tourism
research firm, said the shut-
down might discourage
international travelers, too.
“These uncertainties will
result in fewer conferences
being booked,” Mandala
said, leading to “conven-
tion and hotel staff layoffs,
reduced schedules, result-
ing in less income for work-
ers to spend in the local
economy.”
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