Also Southwest is going to lay off 1,750 employees.
Despite there being 4 deadly plane crashes in the first month of the Trump agency, a wave of termination emails were reportedly sent on Friday to “hundreds,” of FAA employees. CNN reported that staffers could even expect to be blocked from entering FAA facilities as soon as Tuesday.
David Spero, national president of The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, or PASS, said the move to cull probation workers is a “dangerous” one. “Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs,” Spero told CNN. “To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety.
These firings happened less than three weeks after a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet killing 67, an air ambulance crashed in Philadelphia, killing seven, an Alaskan flight went missing and 10 people died earlier this month, one person dying in Scottsdale, Arizona, when a plane veered off the runway, and a Delta flight crash landing on its side in Toronto TODAY is pure evil.
Trump has fired the TSA Administrator and Coast Guard Commandant, as well as members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, who advise on aviation security. The day after being sworn in Trump signed the executive order “Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation,” eliminating DEI hiring procedures in aviation because apparently only white men can be trusted to do...anything.
CNN reported in May last year that air traffic control stations had a shortage of 3,000 controllers. This is only going to exponentially worsen things.
It is also planned for Elon Musk and his little minionsto be allowed to oversee air traffic procedures, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Duffy said on Fox’s Hannity show earlier this month that he is ready to let the cost-cutting, brocolli haired squad shape a new air traffic control system at “the speed of business, not bureaucracy.”
Ah yes, because speed and safety go hand in hand.
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