As @petebuttigieg.bsky.social wrote on another platform: “The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?”
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As Canadian, I even have some concerns about flying over the US when heading to MEXICO. Many of us have cancelled travel plans to US. We'd rather support Mexico.
As an American Id rather you support Mexico so these people see what blind allegiance gets them and how important a sane politician and vote for them actually effects their world
Exactly! I reached out to a state senator to inform her that we may need to pick up the slack of the federal government, hiring those who are fired from the FAA, to establish an equivalent at the state level or if it already exist, strengthen it. And to partner with airlines to ensure safety.
Just a guess,but there will be no answers.Not from the Felon, not from the Nazi, not from the MAGAts in Congress,not Schumer and disappointingly not from the feckless Hakeem Jeffries who was too busy quietly meeting with more than 150 Silicon Valley-based donors last week in California.What a $nake.
I would avoid flying unless you have to. This administration wants to cut until planes start falling out of the sky then hire back until they stop. Classic move fast and break stuff business tactic. I’m so glad our country is run like a business.
Actually I’m thinking that the airlines will put fewer planes in the air and lose a lot of income. They can’t take chances w an understaffed, exhausted FAA!
The public deserves transparency those questions are critical to understanding the full scope of what’s happening. Firing FAA personnel without clear answers only fuels more uncertainty and concern about safety. Accountability and clarity are key!
@americanairlines.bsky.social @deltaairline.bsky.social @southwestair.bsky.social
You’ll be the ones to suffer because of this maga disinformation campaign against the FAA. So many Americans WILL NOT FLY under these conditions.
You better use your billions to fight this with everything you’ve got.
Doge seem to be firing everyone who doesn’t have a confirmed contract irrespective of how important the job they are doing musk-trump just wants to be able to say he cut x-thousands of jobs to appease his base they don’t care about the damage or the cost of re-hiring when they realise they're needed
I heard it was 300, but I suspect more than that. They claim they got rid of all "probationaries". If it was even one air traffic controller, they screwed the pooch...
And how much experience are they taking with them? Whether they've been their 10 months or 10 years, experience counts for a lot and when you consider how long it takes to hire, train and onboard a controller this can be a deep hole to put us in for no valid reason.
I also would like an official statement on the number of Plane crashes and/or "incidents" we're willing to absorb before admitting there's a problem, and it isn't "woke", because we hadn't had any crashes in the 16 years prior to the Trump administration.
Same here. I’m not will to gamble while this lunatic is
in cutting FAA STAFF.
At least 7 plane crashes since Trump and Musk destroyed aviation safety in the United States.
Trump doesn’t care about answers Pete. He’s bulldozing and he doesn’t care about the people at all. Sad thing is trump is an idiot and doesn’t see that musk is bulldozing him.
He shared it here too.
What a shame the current administration has such a shortage of individuals with Pete Buttigieg's integrity, intelligence, and skill.
I hope to see him in a prominent role in the next administration and to hear more from him during this one. https://bsky.app/profile/petebuttigieg.bsky.social/post/3liewjjmlcc2u
To Trump it is the usual careless response in private - "Who cares?"Just get rid of them workers so the oligarchs can get more of a tax break!"
He fired all those nuclear weapons personnel and opps! Now,Trump wants some back. That idiot Musk did the same thing at Twitter by firing too many workers.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday in a post on X that "the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go."
I don’t want to spread a conspiracy theory. Just a thought though, Elon musk wanted to switch FAA guidance systems over to SpaceX. Could that be being done without public knowledge? I know I was planning to fly this spring and I am now driving instead.
If you still have and account on twitter, then you are part of the fucking problem. Cancel your account and stop reposting the messaging from there, no matter who it is.
My husband is a pilot. I always have a baseline anxiety when he's at work because you can't control weather or bird strikes. But now I have idiot-made reasons to worry more.
IMO, they are doing this so people will stay within the borders of the US. All part of the isolationist agenda. The 🍊💩will NEVER, hear me on this, NEVER BE A DICTATOR. He is trying but WE will not let him. This is NOT and will NOT become 1930's Germany. WE WILL FIGHT!
JUST A REMINDER...In 1930, Germany was in the midst of a political and economic crisis. The country was divided, and the government was unable to address the problems of the Great Depression. This led to the rise of the Nazi Party
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Please start a class action suit against Trump/Musk as Raskin described on Sunday. Millions are waiting for a leader and event that will bring us together in force.This would generate huge energy and could be a beginning of the end - our SOLIDARITY! Be our Lech Walesa!
The funny thing is, as outdated as it is, our current system was the envy of the world. Until Congress decided we didn’t need to consistently and adequately fund the FAA. So the planned maintenance and upgrades were often delayed b/c of lack of funding. As per most things in our govt.
Doge claims they are transparent. Democrats need to flood this administration with Freedom of Information Act requests to find out what they are doing. If they don't honor the request then sue.
Let’s assume the plan is to privatize the FAA, who would be in a position to hire the controllers and enter into a contract with the USGOV? Trump will likely be getting some payoff for awarding the contract. Some billionaire donor will likely be the awardee.
Sacrifice a few hundred more citizens,get everyone good and scared to fly (blame Biden) and then close airports to “fix the problem better than any problems been fixed in the history of problems.” Am I right?
How long before we’re under martial law? Why are we letting this happen!?
He posted the same on Bluesky. A very good question. I am non-FAA but word I got was it was admin personnel AND technicians that repair National Airspace System equipment (radios, interphones, and radar, etc.).
In a Dictatorship you as a citizen DO NOT have a need to know anything that might reflect badly of the persons in power. I suggest DO NOT FLY unless you absolutely have to. I know I sound satirical and I am but I am also very serious. DO NOT FLY at this time. It's bad for your health.
I wonder if this is intentional by the fourth reich to create a fear of flying (some people's only means of escaping) and this is affecting all income levels (except the ultra rich of course).
We have several trips by air coming up, and I’m very concerned about our safety, as well as everyone flying. Why aren’t the airlines using their collective clout to stop this destruction of safe air travel?
Too many essential professionals fired in every agency and did they ever think of repercussions compromising safety and lives? FAA so important and not to be fucked with.
Boy, can't wait to take that trans-Atlantic (it's still the Atlantic, isn't it?) flight in April. Actually, it might be time to think about cancelling.
Too narrow questions. How about: what you are going to do when your presedent says directly he is the law, ignores federal juges descisions while his friend dismantle the government to gain profit? Is this the constitutional crisis already?
Why? That can be asked of every one of these mass firings. There is no way they've had time to make informed decisions, they are just hacking away. Pun intended!
And this part of the flying public won’t be flying anywhere as long as a fascist billionaire & his band of teenage hackers have their fingers in the FAA & NTSB, fiddling with flying safety & firing the real professionals. ✈️🙂↔️👎
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.
1/2 Once american travel is restricted (to keep doctors and other essential trades from fleeing the country) there won’t be as many flights required so what use will ATC staff be?
2/2 travel will also be restricted within the US to keep people from travelling to gather for protests etc. No one from the NSA has been fired yet either, they’re going to be needed to “keep tabs” on americans…
Especially since there was yet another plane crash today involving a US carrier. It happened in Toronto on a Delta flight out of Minnesota. If this many crashes had happened in Joe Biden‘s first month, the GQP would have drafted articles of impeachment and be holding hearings already. #3E #FuckTrump
Maybe there are some dots I’m failing to connect but wouldn’t the airline industry be concerned that there will be a not insignificant drop in business if the flying public is rightfully apprehensive about getting on a plane right now…canceling flights + not booking flights?!?
The buck stops at the top. The time has come for FOTUS to take responsibility & make a plan to take corrective action. The problem with the FAA must be resolved NOW.
I think we all know why, even not allowing for idiocy.
How long has it been since djt or em have ridden public transit of any kind? They don't understand transportation, so should not appoint those who oversee it.
They are cutting people because that’s what they have been told to do. No analysis or analytics. Just firing people and claiming they are cutting waste. They will replace them with loyalists so where are the savings?
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Why are the spineless Democrats collecting a paycheck? You conceded defeat on 1/6 & have done nothing since. Why are the Ds continuing to be an embarrassment to their constituents?
Who in the FAA has the guts to blame Donald Trump for today’s accident? We know Trump didn’t pilot the plane but firing thousands of staff involved in airline safety seems like a lead on the crime.
Hmm keep your people separated and under control from the rest of the world . Limit travel ! I am sure while Space X works on the newest, bestest air control systems , there will not be much travel available to the citizens of the US .Athoritarian style Good luck from 🇨🇦💚.
Fight back before too late
Elon Musk posted on X in January 2024, regarding aviation hiring,
"It will take an #airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of #DEI."
POSTED: Jan. 9, 2024
#FAA @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
The way this is being done, there is no in depth study of what the people do that are being let go. They are targeting newer employees under probation. One lady under probation and let go had been in her job 13 yrs Elon is treating the Fed govt like it's Twitter. No thought no process. just cut
I won't be flying any time soon. Let the airlines lose business or let someone that the Trump Regime deems to be important be in a crash and then see what happens. Privatizing all Govt. Agency's will be a total freaking disaster.
President Musk is doing no analysis or audits to evaluate the jobs he is arbitrarily eliminating and the impact this has on safety and national security.
Airplane crashes and radiation leaks will increase. People will die. The destruction of the US, as we know it, is Musk’s end game.
Even so he has no authority to do any of this. He was not elected to do one single thing. Everyday it continues and it is just as unacceptable as it was the day before + the compound annoyance. trump is in Florida most of the time doing nothing. The World takes us for the farce that we have become.
Everybody: stop flying. But don’t stop there. Email the airlines and tell them exactly why you aren’t flying anymore. If enough of these large businesses start complaining to the lawmakers they own about the effects of this terrible administration, something might change.
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Tell Pete HE needs to report back with the goddamned answers.
That's how it's supposed to work.
Next thing ya know, he'll be blaming us for not voting for him.
Like he ran his businesses into the ground.
Now he wants to run America, Americans, and American planes into the ground.
He literally doesn't give a flying f...ck about people.
You’ll be the ones to suffer because of this maga disinformation campaign against the FAA. So many Americans WILL NOT FLY under these conditions.
You better use your billions to fight this with everything you’ve got.
If you are too far from your state capitol, demonstrate at your city hall, or on a busy street corner in your town, or on an overpass.
We continue to build & educate.
No quit, no quarter, 24/7.
#NQNQ247
https://bsky.app/profile/ladypup.bsky.social/post/3lifs5boz5k2j
May be of interest.
Not to Trump though.
Jeez can't makeup this nightmare.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
in cutting FAA STAFF.
At least 7 plane crashes since Trump and Musk destroyed aviation safety in the United States.
1/29 – Washington, D.C.
1/31 – Pennsylvania
2/5 – Washington
2/6 – Alaska
2/10 – Arizona
2/12 – California
2/16 – Georgia
No F’n Way am I getting on a plane right now.
We need a hybrid of Huey P. Long and Winston Churchill right now - not Pete.
What a shame the current administration has such a shortage of individuals with Pete Buttigieg's integrity, intelligence, and skill.
I hope to see him in a prominent role in the next administration and to hear more from him during this one.
https://bsky.app/profile/petebuttigieg.bsky.social/post/3liewjjmlcc2u
He fired all those nuclear weapons personnel and opps! Now,Trump wants some back. That idiot Musk did the same thing at Twitter by firing too many workers.
You'd think Elon & Felon would be worried about their own planes.
jodete maldito saco de mierda maldito hijoeputa Trump
That's why they don't care.
Ask me how I know.
* facedesk *
They want to break the government and privatize everything…
All of them.
Because.
https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3lievpsita22l
How long before we’re under martial law? Why are we letting this happen!?
#TeamPete 📢
https://youtu.be/sofj0ECODeU
Sonny, A Bronx Tale.
Need a landing? Say a prayer.
The experts vanished into air.
It’s nothing personal—just insane.
Hope you survive your next plane!
We will have many more unscheduled disassemblies.
Not flying anytime soon
HORRIBLE
Decisions affect
Safe
Flying?
https://bsky.app/profile/petebuttigieg.bsky.social/post/3liewjjmlcc2u
I’m not dying to prove any point made by the galactic stupid.
AND spokesman for the DNC
GET ON FOX @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
To make all agencies ineffective as an excuse to privatize them.
How long has it been since djt or em have ridden public transit of any kind? They don't understand transportation, so should not appoint those who oversee it.
Or at least scared to.
https://bsky.app/profile/petebuttigieg.bsky.social/post/3liewjjmlcc2u
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Why are the spineless Democrats collecting a paycheck? You conceded defeat on 1/6 & have done nothing since. Why are the Ds continuing to be an embarrassment to their constituents?
Fight back before too late
They're just not major news events outside the local area.
"It will take an #airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of #DEI."
POSTED: Jan. 9, 2024
#FAA @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
But yeah, good questions.
but i digress
Airplane crashes and radiation leaks will increase. People will die. The destruction of the US, as we know it, is Musk’s end game.