[EnquiringMind]

TWC said there is a 140 mph jet stream, the air is turbulent. Being denied the request for a change of course sounds like an issue.

[Zhang Fei]

[TWC said there is a 140 mph jet stream, the air is turbulent. Being denied the request for a change of course sounds like an issue.]

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In an age of hiring quotas imposed on air traffic controllers by Obama, you gotta ask - was the ATC one of the black and/or female hires who would not have passed muster under the old hiring standards?