Given that hundreds of flights are delayed and abolished due to lack of employees in the middle of the government shutdown that has now entered on October 9, the United States government warned the air traffic administrator that they would be rejected who could not appear. In his statement, US Transport Minister Sean Duffy called absent employees to “problem children” and said that the increase in the absence of employees causes significant air disturbances.
Sean Duffy said, “If we have a continuous small sub -group of drivers that do not appear to work, and they are a problem with children … If we have any of our employees that are not devoted, we let them go.” He continued: “I can’t have people who don’t see work.”
However, the Minister of Transport also appreciated 90-95 percent of the controllers who appear daily, although they do not get paid in the middle of the US government. He said, “It’s a small fraction of people who don’t come to work that can create this massive disruption, and that’s what you see, how they’re going to our sky today.”
Meanwhile, the National Association Association Association Air Traffic Controllers Association urged its Air controllers to keep working. The Union warned workers that the connection to any protest or strike was against the law and could fire them. “Participation in the work event could lead to removal from the federal service,” she said.
The warnings from Trump’s administration came because more than 15,000 flights faced Monday, October 1, due to lack of staff in the middle of the shutdown.
The Federal Air Administration stated in the announcement that a number of airports – including Houston, Nashville, Dallas, Chicago O’Hare and Newark were influenced. Southwest Airlines delayed more than 500 flights and American Airlines more than 400 flights, showed Flightware data. In Nashville, more than 225 flights and more than 570 flights in Chicago O’Hare were delayed.
“Historically, there are about 5 percent of the delay that is attributed to staff in our towers. The last few days it was 53 percent,” Duffy said.
Problems with air traffic control during this shutdown occurred earlier than the last main stopping of government funding in 2019, during the first term of US President Donald Trump, which led to an unexpected shortage in cities across the country.
In 2019, during a 35 -day shutdown, the number of absence of controllers and TSA officers rose when the workers missed the payouts and extended the waiting times of the checkpoint at some airports. The authorities were forced to slow down air traffic in New York, which exerted pressure on the legislators to quickly stop the distance.
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