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The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees via emails, including workers in radar, landing, and navigational aid roles, as well as personnel in a classified early warning radar program for Hawaii.

The terminations occur just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision at Reagan Washington National Airport amid ongoing staffing shortages and safety concerns in air traffic control.

Some employees allege the firings were politically motivated and executed without following standard government protocols.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (18 children)

several hundred FAA employees

Back around 1980, you had the Reagan-PATCO union showdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order,[13][14] and banned them from federal service for life.

These layoffs are something like a few percent the size of that. And those were people in one role, which is gonna be a bottleneck, harder to deal with, whereas this is gonna be spread out.

[–] dhork 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And Reagan got rewarded for that by naming an airport after him

[–] Serinus 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did he? Never heard of it.

I know Dulles and John Glenn and National and JFK. Can't say I recall a "Reagan Airport".

[–] P00ptart 2 points 3 days ago

It's the one in DC that the airliner hit the helicopter.

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