Posted on 04/22/2013 8:51:27 AM PDT by KingofZion
It was a tough start to the week for many air travelers as federal budget cuts led to cascading delays along the East Coast Monday morning.
Some flights out of New York and Washington were delayed by more than two hours as the Federal Aviation Administration kept planes on the ground. The federal agency has said furloughs of air traffic controllers could lead to delays if there weren't enough people to monitor busy air corridors.
*** Government budget cuts that kicked in last month are forcing the FAA and other agencies to cut their spending. FAA officials have said they have no choice but to furlough all 47,000 agency employees, including nearly 15,000 controllers. Each employee will lose one day of work every other week. The FAA has said that planes will have to take off and land less frequently, so as not to overload the remaining controllers on duty.
*** Delta Air Lines said it was "disappointed" in the furloughs and warned travelers Monday to expect delays in the following cities: New York, Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
*** Raymond Adams, president of the air traffic controllers union at New Jersey's Newark airport, said on Twitter than a few flights out of Newark to the south got sent back to Newark because the Washington area air traffic control system was overwhelmed.
Some groups are warning that the slowdown could hurt the economy.
"Our nation's economy and businesses will pay a very steep price that significantly outstrips savings produced by furloughs," the Global Business Travel Association warned the FAA in a letter Friday. "If these disruptions unfold as predicted, business travelers will stay home, severely impacting not only the travel industry but the economy overall."
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Furloughs for the air traffic controllers.
Fully funded EBT cards for the lazy bums.
FUBO.
Manufactured bad Kabuki.....in fact, really pathetic Kabuki where the characters don’t even play their roles with believability. Manufactured crisis.
This is such BS. The “cuts” are baseline cuts, in other words a cut in INCREASE, not actual cuts. Or rather that’s the case overall. Of course obastard et al. made sure there were real cuts in services that affect us serfs’ lives. But that is purely by their design and has not relation to the actual funding situation.
they can start phasing out the groping and x-raying of American citizens, too
that will save them some money they can use for sending more advanced weapons of mass destruction to O’s MuslimTerrorist friends overseas
has not relation = has no relation. PIMF
The FAA budget is not a dime less than last year!
hussein’s America.
What a lot of cr**. These people are all on vacation. They will get the money they lost....just like last time.
None of this was due to the sequester of federal funds. It is due entirely to a political decision to make the effects of the sequester most visible to as many of the general population as possible, by making moves to create the greatest degree of inconvenience for all involved. But the furloughing of FAA personnel is not the only economy that may have been made within these agencies, they know it, but they did it anyway, to make a point.
Lets just stop the $250 million dollar handout Obama and Kerry promised to Al-Qaeda in Syria and apply that to this Obama-manufactured pseudo crisis.
Obama could not do enough angry people mob stir with the white house closing so now he tries to make the rest of the country suffer for his incompetence.
He is in the bunker and he is determed to make the country suffer for his failure.
America is being blackmailed by democrats and by president hussein
will flyers believe the lie that the delays are caused by evil Republicans and the right wing Tea Party?
How can you possibly suggest that this problem will backfire on our hard-working president who has so much on his plate it will take the rest of his term to just digest the miasma?
Fire political appointees? Are you out of your mind?
Don’t you realize that these appointees represent the cream of American intellect and are hard workers?
Just consider the quality of the staff members that slave each and every day in the White House and its annex. Over 1,000 of America’s best are there striving for excellence in operating this great nation. The cost is tremendous in expenditures for this manpower.
/s/ A hopeful Obama appointee.
This is going to backfire bigtime on Obama when summer travel season begins.
It will be much worse than you could ever believe, yesterday I was flying, and if the tower would have been closed as originally scheduled, there would have been quite a few planes crash into each other. In a matter of 2 minutes 8 planes coming from 4 different directions approached the airport. The tower had 3 doing 360’s and 3 others making a lot of turns for sequencing and traffic avoidance, while my downwind was extended to 6 miles out. All this was at Whiteman in SoCal. It lies under Burbank airspace and next to Van Nuys, it is a very heavily congested area for air traffic, without the controller, somebody would have eaten shit big time. Tower closing postponed til August now.
Hey Obama, Bush managed to fight two wars, keep the employed employed, keep the Jihad fight on THEIR shores and NOT cut air control.
Face it DummyCrats, your team doesn't know how to manage a budget much less a country.
Effing Jerks!
This is an Obama “blue flu”.
Sequester cuts or cuts carefully designed to cause pain to the public to demonstrate the need to kick the Evil Republicans out of office? This is also known as the Washington Monument Strategy named after the practice of the National Park Service to cancel public tours of the Washington Monument to demonstrate the need for more money.
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