On Wednesday, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that 10 percent of flights will be canceled at 40 unspecified airports experiencing “high volume” beginning Friday, November “immediately.”
The decision came after they were “gutched,” Duffy explained at a news conference. It’s a strong indication that the effect of the shutdowns that have plagued Air Travel is starting to snowball, and that Friday’s cancellation could be the start of a historic financial crisis.
Air traffic controllers are Federal employees who are often paid to understand the status of an airport at or near a given airport, including the capacity of manned flight tubes and jet fuel.
Detailed demos of larpeople’s work make a strong case in the air that it is declining strongly. Currently, air traffic controllers do this work for free, and if they need money to do things like “eat” or “withdraw” to get something.
So there’s been an explosion of air traffic controllers “who have to be able to call in sick to get money elsewhere,” one anonymous air traffic controller told NPR. It’s difficult to work multiple jobs, especially if you work in a field where more than 90 percent of the people who are attracted are unemployed before closing. And, today, administrators are set to receive their second payment Stub with no money attached. This leads to what the FAA calls “extreme stress and fatigue,” which sounds about right.
Duffy warned of the potential of “Mass Chaos” to fight back earlier this week.
Mass Chaos has already begun, with about 5,000 flights to and from US airports delayed in a single day this past week. A regular flight to Lax was delayed by an hour on the same day. It is on top of this confusion that the 40 airports will have ten percent of their traffic eliminated – a plan that will not exist “based on the duffline, according to the pressure and how do we relieve the pressure?”
In other words, the cancellations will not be combined to reduce the impact on travelers, but to relieve the maximum amount of pressure on efficient operators. Airline connections and airline connections mean traffic reductions in the number of selected flights will result in cancellations, delays, and missed connections, no matter how much airlines try to avoid them.
And if you’re flying anytime soon, remember that cancellations and delays aren’t your only worries. “Every single day this goes on tomorrow is safer than today,” National Air Traffic Accours Association President Nick Daniels told CNN.
It is also worth emphasizing that the payment situation is the same for TSA employees, so they also call in sick, which leads to security lines at the airport, reportedly four and a half hours at least.
Thanksgiving is still 21 days away, and the Sunday after Thanksgiving is traditionally America’s best travel day of the year with about 20 million Americans flying during Thanksgiving last year. American Airlines wrote in a statement on Oct. 30 Those flights are ‘waiting for the holiday travel season.’
The shutdown will have to end soon as this delay does not affect holiday travel, since according to Daniels it will take weeks “to recover” from the outbreak.
If, on the other hand, the shutdown is carried out during the holiday season, the pressure on the workers and the lack of payment will be worse. Add snowy conditions to it all, and Friday’s drop in air traffic could be a small taste of the travel hell we’re all about to experience.
