WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The head of a trade group

representing major U.S. airlines will call on Wednesday for

permanently ending aviation disruptions during government

shutdowns by ensuring air traffic controllers and other key

workers are paid.

Airlines for America, the group representing American Airlines ( AAL )

, Delta Air Lines ( DAL ), Southwest Airlines ( LUV ),

United Airlines and others, will tell a U.S. Senate

aviation subcommittee that the 43-day government shutdown and

government imposed flight cuts disrupted 6 million passengers

and 50,000 flights because of rising air traffic controller

absences.

"We should never subject our air traffic control system to this

chaos again," A4A CEO Chris Sununu will say according to his

written testimony. "This simply should never happen again."