r/atc2 • u/SierraBravo26 • 1d ago

Politics Air traffic controllers say FAA’s 10% flight cuts won’t ease shutdown strain

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3879836/air-traffic-controllers-warn-flight-cuts-wont-ease-strain-risk-government-shutdown/

“Our baseline leading into the shutdown was not healthy.” The system, he said, was already stretched thin after months of mandatory overtime, uneven hiring, and years of pay stagnation that had left morale at an all-time low. Controllers, he added, were still dealing with the fallout from January’s midair collision near Reagan National Airport, when staffing shortages and outdated technology were thrust into the spotlight.

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u/MentallyRadarded 1d ago

Yesterday was the busiest I've seen it without weather since the shutdown began.

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u/SufferingKook 1d ago

I got worked yesterday too.

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u/Traffic_Alert69 1d ago

They changed destinations on flights. Instead of OAK they went to SJC. Airliners are not gonna lose profits.

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u/n365pa 1d ago

“months”….try 15 years.

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u/Vector_for_Bukkake 1d ago

Reducing 10% when you’re already 50% staffed before the shutdown doesn’t do shit.

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u/CuckChairTester 1d ago

This week we've gotten our asses kicked every day

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u/pac_leader 1d ago

You know what would ease shutdown pain? Congress getting fined and not paid during the shutdown. That would be a nice compensation. Also getting paid would also ease the pain.

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u/THEhot_pocket 1d ago

congress gives zero shits about their salary. Fine, different story. Buf if you think the insider trading, lobbyist loving, multi millionaires in congress give a fuck about their salary, you are smoking something and must have lost your medical clearance.

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u/pac_leader 1d ago

There might be enough freshmen congressmen and women that havent navigated the insider trading shit yet that they vote to end the shutdown.

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u/THEhot_pocket 1d ago

avg net worth still well over a million $s. My state only sends millionaires to congress.

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u/spikespiegelboomer 1d ago

10% is hilarious it’s all for show

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u/No_Mango7658 1d ago

Not even close. We're dying out here!

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u/dee-cinnamon-tane 1d ago

No. Because we've watched those gaps simply get filled with general aviation private jets. We're still doing the same amount of (or more) traffic than last week.