The Federal Aviation Administration says flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted briefly due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this isn’t going to happen. Trump is a fucking moron who thinks of himself as the second coming of Reagan. So he will 100% happily fire all of the traffic controllers we have if they even breathe the word “strike”. I’m just outlining what a god-awful fucked up future we have in store for us.
Given everything you know about America, do you really think it would be fantastic for the climate?
Because personally, I’m pretty sure people would just end up driving instead of flying, which is generally worse for the environment. Rich people would still be flying in private jets. We’d just see less commercial flights (and nearly zero general aviation), which would largely be replaced by people taking long road trips
It may still have a net positive on emissions if only barely, a flight to Disneyworld gets canceled and not replaced is generally good, same thing with non essential conferences and conventions. But it could also respin up road trip culture, IE packing into and going to Carlsbad Caverns instead of flying out to the Florida.
Air travel is worse than trains, better than driving. Knowing America, people would only end up driving more. I personally don’t think that’s a good thing
People fly because it’s the fastest means of travel. The fastest trains will never be as fast as flying but people are also never going to be able to drive as fast as high speed rail.
Even once there is demand, it’ll be an uphill fight against an entrenched opponent profiting from inefficient transportation, but I’m optimistic that eventually it’ll happen.
and they cant hire just anyone too, because of how stringent the job requirements are, they have medical requirements, plus an extensive college program
this part is true, they cant just hire anyone, because its already competitive asf to even get the job, plus thier are ton of medical requirements, a multi year training program, plus they have to accepted into tha tprogram in the first place,.
It has nothing to do with anyone imposing consequences. There simply is no way to hire people for this job to replace what’s already there. They can’t even backfill turnover from retiring ATCs. Reality takes care of this on its own.
Not really, no. Just ask those who got fired by Reagan.
That didn’t work out as well as Reagan thought it would. And has been fucking up our air travel situation for the last 40 years. To do it again would literally kill air travel in the country for the next 30 years. People would literally stop flying.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this isn’t going to happen. Trump is a fucking moron who thinks of himself as the second coming of Reagan. So he will 100% happily fire all of the traffic controllers we have if they even breathe the word “strike”. I’m just outlining what a god-awful fucked up future we have in store for us.
From a climate perspective, that would be fantastic.
Given everything you know about America, do you really think it would be fantastic for the climate?
Because personally, I’m pretty sure people would just end up driving instead of flying, which is generally worse for the environment. Rich people would still be flying in private jets. We’d just see less commercial flights (and nearly zero general aviation), which would largely be replaced by people taking long road trips
If it were replaced with massive investment into public transport and new dedicated high speed rail between US cities, it’d be a huge net positive.
A man can dream, anyway.
It may still have a net positive on emissions if only barely, a flight to Disneyworld gets canceled and not replaced is generally good, same thing with non essential conferences and conventions. But it could also respin up road trip culture, IE packing into and going to Carlsbad Caverns instead of flying out to the Florida.
I say do it! Air travel is a huge waste and harmful to the environment. Maybe this will finally lead to better trains!
Air travel is worse than trains, better than driving. Knowing America, people would only end up driving more. I personally don’t think that’s a good thing
People fly because it’s the fastest means of travel. The fastest trains will never be as fast as flying but people are also never going to be able to drive as fast as high speed rail.
You’d need to build high speed rail first
Won’t happen until there’s demand which won’t exist so long as flying is so accessible.
Even once there is demand, it’ll be an uphill fight against an entrenched opponent profiting from inefficient transportation, but I’m optimistic that eventually it’ll happen.
Which caused domino effects that are still being felt. They can’t do that again. There simply isn’t anybody they can hire.
and they cant hire just anyone too, because of how stringent the job requirements are, they have medical requirements, plus an extensive college program
I keep hearing/seeing people say “they can’t do that…” Then they do it with no repercussions.
this part is true, they cant just hire anyone, because its already competitive asf to even get the job, plus thier are ton of medical requirements, a multi year training program, plus they have to accepted into tha tprogram in the first place,.
It has nothing to do with anyone imposing consequences. There simply is no way to hire people for this job to replace what’s already there. They can’t even backfill turnover from retiring ATCs. Reality takes care of this on its own.
just have ai do it
I wonder how well that would work right now. You fire them all and then…. ask for volunteers? Since there’s no money to pay them with.