Every day of the federal government shutdown air traffic controllers calling out sick have caused flight delays, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday.
“It’s different every day,” he told reporters at a news conference at Philadelphia International Airport. “The average… is about 5% of our delays come from staffing shortages with air traffic controllers. We’ve gone up as high as 53% of the delays… because of staffing shortages.”
On Friday, 11 air traffic control facilities were short-staffed, including the control towers in Dallas Fort Worth, Newark and Phoenix, TRACONs which handle flights approaching and departing Houston, Newark, Southern California as well as centers, which handle high altitude flights around Albuquerque, Atlanta, Denver and New York.
All part of a greater plan to allow corporations to take over gov functions.
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See, plebs, we can’t be trusted to run things smoothly. We have no choice but to sell all real estate holdings and release any and all authority over flight safety to our trusted partners at X.
The TSA is now a subsidiary of Blackwater, and screening has already been done by Palantir.
If you have any questions, please direct them to the new government information office at PragerU.
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