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FAA Extends Tower Closure Date until June 15
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that it will delay the closures of all 149 federal contract air traffic control towers until June 15. Last month, the FAA announced it would eliminate funding for these towers as part of the agency’s required $637 million budget cuts under sequestration. This additional time will allow the agency to attempt to resolve multiple legal challenges to the closure decisions. (www.faa.gov) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Or maybe they're realizing that ain't nobody buying this "budget cut" story. Ya think?
More political grandstanding! That's all this "sequestration" nonsense is!!
Shouldn't this have gone out 5 days ago? Or maybe it would have been the appropriate time for the initial notice.
Phased in or all at once, no difference as a tower is still closed and people out of work. The lawsuits may have some merit, BUT, as it has opened everybody's eyes, they probably should tighten up and take a serious look at the very low use towers, AND they probably will. If they do we should not be surprised. This whole sequestration thing has just been a shock treatment by Congress to let them all know that the teat does not havae and endless supplu of milk(money). Probably over the next few months they will have to get serious about it.
One thing the FAA does not want is a series of plaintiffs serving them with subpoenas for documents and testimony...particularly between the Administration and the Unions. Until then the shredders will work overtime and documents marked "Double Secret Probation". The most "unreliable" FAA career types will find themselves manning the tower in Kabul and unable to return...just like Fast and Furious.
The last 4 1/2 years have been interesting and uncompromising ......now, lets see what happens for the next 3 1/2 years....I'm really getting tired of all the games....