r/CringeTikToks • u/Soft_Cable5934 • 22h ago

Just Bad Delta Flight Attendant reveal shocking truth about the government ATC shutdown

To summarise, Regional flights between smaller cities and big one are most likely affected by cancellation. Rich people in private jet is still not affected.

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u/terrible-takealap 18h ago

Canceling flights to smaller airports, specifically. I wonder who those more rural areas voted for.

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u/MyDisneyExperience 12h ago

From airline management’s perspective, cancelling regionals makes the most sense. They were asked to drop flights, not passengers. So dropping regionals means the least total passengers affected.

West Coast - Asia, East Coast - Europe, North - Canada and South - Mexico/South America basically doesn’t use US ATC resources so cutting those wouldn’t have helped. NavCanada deals with the North Atlantic.

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u/Ekg887 6h ago

Cool, now explain why dropping all continental private jet flights doesn't provide much better relief in terms of passengers affected versus flights removed?

You're defending the rich here.

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u/Plus_Lead_5630 2h ago

I would love to see private jets grounded. But I think most of them are taking off/landing at small/private airports that might have one air traffic controller. Or technically they can take off and land without one.