The Federal Aviation Administration says flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted briefly due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.
    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      That didn’t work out as well as Reagan thought it would. And has been fucking up our air travel situation for the last 40 years. To do it again would literally kill air travel in the country for the next 30 years. People would literally stop flying.

      Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this isn’t going to happen. Trump is a fucking moron who thinks of himself as the second coming of Reagan. So he will 100% happily fire all of the traffic controllers we have if they even breathe the word “strike”. I’m just outlining what a god-awful fucked up future we have in store for us.

      • BigBenis@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        I say do it! Air travel is a huge waste and harmful to the environment. Maybe this will finally lead to better trains!

        • Taldan@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 month ago

          Air travel is worse than trains, better than driving. Knowing America, people would only end up driving more. I personally don’t think that’s a good thing

          • BigBenis@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            People fly because it’s the fastest means of travel. The fastest trains will never be as fast as flying but people are also never going to be able to drive as fast as high speed rail.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      29·
      2 months ago

      Which caused domino effects that are still being felt. They can’t do that again. There simply isn’t anybody they can hire.