The government shutdown is over. The air traffic controller shortage is not

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/15/government-shutdown-air-traffic-controllers.html

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Burninator05@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 306d

That's the goal isn't it? To show that anything the government did is ineffective and that the employers are lazy and incompetent? Once they do that they will completely get rid of any functions that aren't, in their eyes 100% necessary and contract out the remainder at significant cost.

verdantbanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d (6 replies)

Driving there is always better anyways

Miss a lot flying

SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 306d (5 replies)

I'd love to see pictures of your road trip to Hawaii.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d

Sure thing, here I am arriving at the beach:

abc@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 306d

or indeed just any part of the world that isn’t the continental US, Canada or Mexico 😅

verdantbanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d (2 replies)

very doable to start on the mainland and end in Hawaii in a ground vehicle

have special boat trips that ferry the driver and vehicle both

why see Hawaii tags outside of Hawaii

SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 306d (1 reply)

I wasn't saying it was impossible, there's a suspiciously large numbers of cars on a series of islands with no car factories, but would you actually ferry there as a tourist? No, of course not.

verdantbanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d

just saying met people who have and their license tags started our conversations about it

said ferry themselves and their vehicles as tourist

thought it was impractical myself but hey