Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop
by AngryData on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:44PM
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Maybe just paranoia but it seems slightly suspicious for this to happen while we are in the middle of discussing massive funding and overhauls to the air traffic control systems. This will certainly end up pushing a lot more funding into these programs and companies now that were trying to sell more expensive systems.
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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop
by Waterluvian on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:56PM
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I don’t think you’re paranoid to recognize that something desperately in need of funding is suffering the consequences of a lack of funding.
I guess we will see what happened in the aftermath. But I very much doubt the current problem has anything to do with a lack of funding.
And I don't see anyone arguing about overall funding, only arguing about who to throw millions or billions of additional dollars at chasing vague ideas of how to improve things based on what politicians and C-suites, who have no experience in the area, claim they can do. To me it looks more like grifting for contracts and kickbacks than any well thought out plans to improve things.