New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Over 7,500 flights canceled in four days as exhausted controllers work without pay while Trump threatens punishment and offers controversial $10,000 bonuses to "patriots"

Air traffic controllers across the United States have reached what union leaders are calling a catastrophic breaking point, as the nation's longest government shutdown enters its forty-first day with no immediate resolution in sight. The crisis has paralyzed American aviation, forcing the cancellation of more than 7,500 flights over a four-day period and leaving millions of travelers stranded at airports nationwide.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that between twenty and forty percent of air traffic controllers have been absent on an...