General Discussion

with a 30% shortage of ATC, you all should have been around when Ronald Reagan, overnight, FIRED over 50% of ATC when he was in office.

Several commercial airline pilots I knew back then, told me that they were way beyond frightened while flying after that...............
and that fear lasted for YEARS due to the difficulty in training replacements............

Incidentally they also stated that Air Traffic Controllers had to space planes farther apart for safety under the situation, and it resulted in serious delays for their passengers. They also pointed out, that they were ORDERED not to say to the passengers, that the delay was due to Air Traffic Controllers......

BTW, both pilots had tens of thousands of hours flying commercial passenger jets, both were die hard Republicans, and also voted for Reagan for a second term........imagine that....LOL

BTW, this 30% shortage in ATC began back in Trump's first term. And interestingly ATC during the Covid period were EVEN BUSIER than normal, even though many passenger flights were cancelled.....this was due to the huge increase in Air Freight flights of PPE going on around he country and supplies coming in from other countries on freight aircraft.......