Please reconsider your flights - Trump firing hundreds of air traffic controllers as of today

[RamsayBolton]

Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal midair collision near Washington.

apnews.com

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

[BlackMajik]

 

[Buddy]

Lo and behold, Federal workers (American citizens) are getting the shaft worse than all the immigrants he campaigned over

 

[Lambent55]

I hear ATC is 71% white male, I wonder which ones he is firing.

 

[ArchStanton]

I'm not flying anywhere.

 

[BaggerofTea]

@jaydawg08

everything good?

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

If you voted for trump fukk you

 

[LuuqMaan]

Bruh, I might be flying to the states in the summer

Sort it out, you dusty Trump voters

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Definitely not a good time to do this but obviously these people don’t care.

 

[Canon]

some hard lessons gonna be learned

 

[CopiousX]

The grand irony is that Air Traffic Control has had a shortage of people for the last two decades.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/air-traffic-controller-shortage/index



Trump is turning a skeleton crew into a corpse

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[CopiousX]

Bruh, I might be flying to the states in the summer

Sort it out, you dusty Trump voters

You might have to fly to Toronto and take a bus south the border

 

[Belize King]

This shyt is so sad. What do you do?

Dude is cutting govt just to cut.

We aren't even one month in yet. Next month's budget is going to be crazy. Money runs out March 14th.

 

[Batsute]

The grand irony is that Air Traffic Control has had a shortage of people for the last two decades.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/air-traffic-controller-shortage/index



Trump is turning a skeleton crew into a corpse

Yep homie was pilot but had give it when he settled down. He was telling me about the shortage and it was so bad a few years he was considering switching careers to get in on the recruiting drive.