Nation wide airport shutdown….
- Thread starter Bambooflyguy
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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.
Simple minds do not understand complexity.
BriGuy
Life of the Party
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.
The ground stoppage has impacted a number of games. This is only a sample of them:
Gonna take some time and research to determine which games are broadcasted and when...
Gonna take some time and research to determine which games are broadcasted and when...
From a year ago
fatbillybob
Steelhead
It's weird that cutting a very large portion of FAA workers likely contributed a fair bit to this as well....who woulda thought?
Got any proof? Anyone here seen the accounting books on the FAA?
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.
Some of that happened, but @SilverFly and @dbaken managed to snag some hotel rooms near the airport.
Steve
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.
Was today his originally booked travel day?
Bambooflyguy
Legend
That’s what I was thinking too Scott!
"Those aren't pillows!"
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Of what?
My opinion?
Or my opinion based on facts that I know to be true?
That's all I'll say on the subject. If you want to make it go in that direction, be my guest....you'll be having a conversation with yourself....which honestly, sometimes isn't the worst thing in the world....now, I'm going fishing.
'copper to optic fiber router upgrade at a remote facility'....we converted hundreds of blds from copper to fiber and never once lost an internet connection much less interrupted an entire national infrastructure system....let's not focus on the 'super intelligence' AI module turned on the day before the failure...lies flow from this administration like crap from a baby's butt, everyone in it is absolutely incapable of telling the truth about anything and everything.