Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
by cranky908canuck on Saturday February 08, 2025 @02:39AM
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> Everything you have listed above could be solved with money.
Except that when money was on the table, Reagan fired them. ATC is remote from most people's day-to-day awareness unless planes hit each other, but medical help that's held back is really in-your-face.
Granted, that's decades in the past. No way anyone would jump in and try to gut the public service like that today [1].
Except that when money was on the table, Reagan fired them. ATC is remote from most people's day-to-day awareness unless planes hit each other, but medical help that's held back is really in-your-face.
Granted, that's decades in the past. No way anyone would jump in and try to gut the public service like that today [1].
[1] sarky.