Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
"Hundreds of thousands of US airline customers were stranded this week as severe weather grounded planes and led to canceled flights. But storms were only one factor behind the travel nightmare. Staffing shortages, at both US airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control operations, took a bad situation and made it worse. The situation at US airports was only slightly better Wednesday. As of 2:44 pm ET, FlightAware tracking service reported there were nearly 850 flights canceled and another 3,500 delays. Although that’s better than the 2,200 canceled flights in each of the last two days, or the more than 16,000 delayed flights between Monday and Tuesday, it’s hardly a smooth-running operation.
Despite $54 billion of taxpayer funds funneled into airlines to keep them alive during the pandemic, most airlines greatly reduced staff during the first year of the pandemic when air travel, and fares, plunged. They were not allowed to involuntarily layoff staff but they did offer buyouts and early retirement packages. Many also permanently grounded older, less efficient aircraft. Rehiring staff has taken longer than planned. United CEO Scott Kirby placed blame for weekend delays and cancellations on the shortage of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. In the memo, Kirby was careful to say the current FAA leadership did not create the current staffing problems, but that they need to deal with them. “To be fair, it’s not the fault of the current FAA leadership,” he wrote, but added “they are responsible for solving the problem they inherited.”
This is what happens when you let unqualified fags hold positions of power - they cause all kinds of issues....and as the Fox guest said, why didn't Butt-boy fix the damage his administration caused in Philly?? This has only added to the transportation problems; and yes I know the road was repaired just over a week and a half later, but it still feels better to believe Butt-boy did nothing to fix it anyway. Did these people remember that a tanker exploded and caused the bridge to collapse? This happened on Butt-boy's watch, why didn't he prevent it? Why didn't he force the major airlines to hire more people quicker? In fact, what kind of moron would reduce their staff when there was going to be such a high consumer demand for travel, because of how horrible the economy is doing right now?
And not only are damaged roads, bad weather, and staff shortages causing all of these delays and cancellations; but the wildfires out of Canada were adding to the flight delays...why didn't Butt-boy do anything to prevent this from happening? This is what happens when you have affirmative action hires in positions they aren't qualified for..makes you wonder, this guy claims to be a Rhodes scholar, how do we know him being gay wasn't what got him accepted to a Rhodes scholarship?? Has anyone ever seen his grades? This is ridiculous.
