Nation wide airport shutdown….

My friend is leaving mexico city in a couple hours and he said his flight is on time to land in seattle.
 
It strikes me as more than, amazing is probably not the right word, maybe astounding, that the most advanced and among the wealthiest governments in the world is not able to keep something as basic as the air transportation system functioning smoothly and safely. But just you wait until you get a look at this arch we're planning to build.
 
It's weird that cutting a very large portion of FAA workers likely contributed a fair bit to this as well....who woulda thought? 🤷‍♂️
 
albula said:
It strikes me as more than, amazing is probably not the right word, maybe astounding, that the most advanced and among the wealthiest governments in the world is not able to keep something as basic as the air transportation system functioning smoothly and safely. But just you wait until you get a look at this arch we're planning to build.
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Simple minds do not understand complexity.
 
albula said:
It strikes me as more than, amazing is probably not the right word, maybe astounding, that the most advanced and among the wealthiest governments in the world is not able to keep something as basic as the air transportation system functioning smoothly and safely. But just you wait until you get a look at this arch we're planning to build.
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I wouldn't consider our air transportation system "basic" at all. Complex, aging, and fragile in places, perhaps, but it does a remarkable job with very few disasters (delays are not disasters). Yes, it needs some help, but it works.

Still, I wouldn't use it to go see an arch.
 
fatbillybob said:
Got any proof? Anyone here seen the accounting books on the FAA?
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Not personally, but from the video above:

at least some of the blame lies with Ronald Reagan.” Though he promised to expand staffing levels, benefits and technology for air traffic controllers, whose union backed him, Reagan never followed through, and threatened to fire and prosecute controllers when they went on strike. Reagan ultimately did fire 11,000 controllers when they went on strike and banned them from ever being rehired. “That left some important legacies,” Oliver explained, “including a massive, panicked hiring spree of new controllers, meaning that two decades later there was also a massive wave of retirements. The FAA has never really managed to catch up with hiring since then.”

And please feel free to delete if this is political but I really think it's not. Not like any administration since has dealt with the issues.
 
SilverFly said:
We managed to book a couple of not horrible hotel rooms pretty close to the airport. Found a "Six" market and currently drinking a Tecate and eating the crunchiest chicharones ever.
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Sorry but that room was only one shade away from horrible. It was definitely in the range of bad to crappy. Still, I am grateful for being able to crash there last night. It beat the aeropuerto.
 
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