There may soon be an end to the government shutdown that has been causing massive flight delays for weeks, but the travel nightmare caused by the political chaos in Washington showed no signs of abating Monday.
A day after senators approved a preliminary agreement to end the impasse, which is now in its 41st day, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would continue to restrict commercial flights into and out of some of the country’s busiest airports.
As of Monday morning, more than 1,400 flights had been canceled of the more than 25,000 scheduled, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics company. On Sunday, more than 2,600 flights were canceled, which amounted to about 10% of all scheduled flights. It’s not clear how many were scheduled cancellations because of the shutdown and how many were canceled for other reasons, such as weather.
Duffy said that ATC resignations and retirements rose from about 4-per-day before the shutdown, to about 15-20 every day now. No it’s not going to get better quickly.
It’s ok, I’m sure the president threatening to dock their pay will convince them to stick around. /s
international ATC is looking for ATC from the USA if they are interested, and they are less likely to pull fuckery like this.
4/day is still alot considered how limited thier workforce is already. unless they are offering them substantial payraise above the current, its unlikely to change.