Is there a bigger question in front of us today?

[pbmdel]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

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Gee, Americans might have to spend their vacations at home.


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[excalibur]

I do not believe this is specific to air traffic controllers.

The FAA, as with all the Federal bureaucracy, is bloated and probably a 50% reduction in the workforce would be in order.

 

[excalibur]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

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[Votto]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

Think of the lives it would save.

 

[Mac1958]

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

MAGA doesn't care. They want as many cuts as possible so that they can get big checks from their Dear Leader.

Where the cuts come from, or the problems they cause, don't matter.

Government is evil and out to get us 'n stuff.

 

[Votto]

MAGA doesn't care. They want as many cuts as possible so that they can get big checks from their Dear Leader.

Where the cuts come from, or the problems they cause, don't matter.

Government is evil and out to get us 'n stuff.

For $5000, I think the whole country would vote to close down the airports

Imagine, no immigrants flying in from Haiti at taxpayer expense and think of all the carbon emissions that would be prevented by keeping these planes on the ground. From what I hear, one plane ride equals the carbon emissions of one SUV riding around all year on the road.

Yay team!!

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....Make Greyhound/Trailways great again.

The great unwashed were never meant to take to the skies.

Pro-tip, never take a flight with a stopover in Atlanta.

 

[yidnar]

MAGA doesn't care. They want as many cuts as possible so that they can get big checks from their Dear Leader.

Where the cuts come from, or the problems they cause, don't matter.

Government is evil and out to get us 'n stuff.

 

[Independent thinker]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

Are you trying to say that air traffic controllers didn't do anything last week?

 

[Votto]

LOL....Make Greyhound/Trailways great again.

The great unwashed were never meant to take to the skies.

Pro-tip, never take a flight with a stopover in Atlanta.

Amtrack might actually get customers.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Amtrack might actually get customers.

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My niece is coming for a couple of weeks in June and I wondered to her if she might take the train instead of flying, but she got her flights booked before we could have a serious discussion about it.

I love taking the train, and the Empire Builder from Western Washington to Fargo ND is beautiful!


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[1srelluc]

They had a near-miss at midway today.

Shocking video shows near miss between Southwest Airlines flight, jet on runway at Midway Airport

A shocking video from Chicago's Midway Airport circulating on social media Tuesday showed a near miss between a Southwest Airlines flight and an "unauthorized" FlexJet business jet on a runway, with Southwest Airlines aborting a landing to avoid the plane.

www.nbcchicago.com

 

[Rawley]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

Couldn't quite understand the leap you made there. Why couldn't people fly any more?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

MAGA doesn't care. They want as many cuts as possible so that they can get big checks from their Dear Leader.

Where the cuts come from, or the problems they cause, don't matter.

Government is evil and out to get us 'n stuff.

Libs are gnashing like banshees as the orange crusader continues to destroy their govt religion.

 

[pbmdel]

The deadline for FAA air traffic controllers to respond to Elon Musk's email about justifying their jobs was 11:59 pm EST on Monday, February 24, 2025. This email, which was sent to approximately 2 million federal employees including FAA air traffic controllers, asked them to provide a summary of their accomplishments from the previous week in five bullet points.

If, and when, people can't fly anymore, could there be a much bigger disaster?

Are Musk's people going to evaluate if an employee keeps his job? Am sure the FAA has everybody well evaluated in their files by experts in the field. With safety of the flying public being their top priority, I'm sure they don't fool around. Thank God, they've got a pretty darn good record.

 

[excalibur]

Are Musk's people going to evaluate if an employee keeps his job? Am sure the FAA has everybody well evaluated in their files by experts in the field. With safety of the flying public being their top priority, I'm sure they don't fool around. Thank God, they've got a pretty darn good record.

Thread 'FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities'

Jan 30, 2025

Well, this sure sounds remarkably dumb.



Oh, Pete Buttigieg's idea. Yes, dumb as DEI.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA’s website states.

"They include hearing, vision...​

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Thread 'FAA's new air traffic control towers go 'green' instead of the latest safe tech'

Feb 18, 2025

Well, how very Biden-like. How foolish as well. But then the two go hand-in-hand.

Aviation experts anticipating Elon Musk’s plans to tackle the nation’s antiquated air traffic control system are scratching their heads over the Biden administration’s move to rebuild dozens of aging regional airport towers with “green” replacements instead of cheaper and safer digital technology.

Remote towers, essentially cameras on tall scaffolding, are used widely throughout...​

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