“I used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I’m now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring,” Duffy told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “So, it’s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace.”
“So, this is going to live on in air travel, well beyond the time frame that this government opens back up.”
Air traffic controllers are set to miss their second consecutive paycheck on Tuesday, with many missing work and taking second jobs. Duffy added that 81 controller staffing shortages were reported at facilities across the country on Saturday, an increase of 20 such instances relative to Oct. 31.
It is high for a normal workforce, but the ATC pool has been greying for a long time because of a mix of neglect and mismanagement like we’re seeing right now.
Reagan made it a shitty place to work and Trump is stiffing them while taking away food stamps.
It’s an issue across government agencies. It has been encouraged and mandated through several administration’s to cut positions. Eventually many agencies have ended up with a lot of low levels temporary employees and several coveted high ranking permanent positions with very very few positions in between. So basically it’s very hard to move up, but then people retire and there’s only like 2 people left qualified for the promotion.
What was the movie? Tin something?
Pushing Tin?
Tin Cup was the golf movie with Kevin Costner, right?
It had Billy Bob Thornton in it, I’m sure you can find it out with that information, I can’t fucking remember either but it did start with the word TIN
I just looked it up it’s pushing tin
“you land 10,000 airplanes safely on the ground and no one notices. You land one in the air and they never forget.” Or something like that
Yep. Was it also John Cusack?
And Angelina Jolie.