* MAJOR AIRLINE CEOS SAY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM IS "FAILING AMERICANS", URGE CONGRESS TO ACT QUICKLY ON FUNDING NEW SYSTEM -- LETTER
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Is America great yet? 😡
Satellites are not up to the job. They're too vulnerable.
It is not safe to fly in America, mishaps, crashes are routine now.
An emergency, no-bid contract to Musk and his punk kids?
If so, I'd rather hitchhike...
CRASH…oh wait…. That sounds like the airline industry hitting concrete
Until American Airlines puts the pressure on Congress to stop the illegal cuts to the FAA and everything else, I’m not flying anymore. I’ll drive my car.
They need to start threatening!
Privatizing the profits while socializing the costs again, I see.
What a state to be in.
Republicans would rather take healthcare away from 13M kids than address critical infrastructure repair needs.
In any other admin this would be scandal.
Creates a problem, offers to fix the problem he created, fixes it, claims credit for being the guy who fixed it all
@vanhollen.senate.gov
The airlines pay billions of dollars in use fees. Where has that money gone?
The airlines should sue the federal government.
Fucking Musk and all the NAZIS want their fingers in the system so they can track peoples movements to prevent protests and dissent!
Exclusive, private airports that charge boceaup $$$ for smaller private jets to land without their VIP passengers having to wait at baggage holds with the common folk.
But that’s ass-pen or vail, Colorado. Federal paid system tho.
I’m sure they don’t use private airports (federal paid) anywhere else.
Certainly not in other states. Where they can drive to their other 8 homes.
So it can take immediate emergency action to privatize it all!
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-starlink-spacex-faa-bbe9495978cac61b60c2971168e2921f
Those fees have funded small system upgrades. But a major new capital expenditure like this will normally be beyond the scope of even a private company’s cash on hand. A private company would use credit.
From Elon Musk's DODE Agency's horrific implosion of air trafic control personnel.
Classic cause the catatrophe, sell the fix.
The dog caught the car
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-20/whos-responsible-for-the-aviation-mess-transportation-secretary-duffy-says-its-everyone-but-him
Seems he's reaping what he has sewn.
Perhaps he now realizes taxes support an infrastructure that is the basis of our economy.
Maybe he'll share that lesson with his R colleagues.
Or not.
"Reagan Declares That “Government Is the Problem” (1981)" https://americanarchive.org/primary_source_sets/conservatism/12-37-93gxdcq8
The anti-science, haters of all regulations who want to make the federal government so small they can drown it in a bathtub, are these airline CEOs delusional? https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/06/08/secret-tax-data-confirms-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-other-billionaires-pay-little-or-no-income-tax-propublica-reports/