[Yosemitest]

It's got nothing to do with safety.
This is Obama, the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, throwing a temper tantrum.
I've got 5 years experience with the FAA and 26+ years military experience air traffic control.
It's about Union vs NON-Union jobs, and competition that shows Unions are a lousy way to go.
Read FAA to close 149 control towers to meet budget cuts and then go look at the FAA CONTRACT Tower Closure List document.

[HotHunt]

What nobody has explained in public or on the news to my satisfaction, is why are all these sequestration “cuts” happening? I understood, and it has been confirmed through several news reports I’ve seen, that the sequester was not actual cuts to existing spending but were a reduction in the increase in future spending for this year and some years forward. And they were insignificant reductions in the increases at that. It’s comparable to your boss telling you that you were up for a $200 a month raise and then right before the raise was to start, he tells you sorry, but he can’t afford $200 a month for your increase. But he can afford $198 a month. Not a real big disappointment is it?

So why all this hand-wringing over “cuts” that were not supposed to be cuts anyway? What’s going on, besides politics as usual?

[Erik Latranyi]

Somebody needs to check.

My quick look at the airports is that they are mostly in Republican districts.

[ExCTCitizen]

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday told 149 regional airports across the country it would begin closing their air traffic control towers in April, but said it would spare another 40 towers that had been on the chopping block. The agency said the cuts are necessary to help meet $637 million in forced spending cuts. The tower closures will begin April 7 and will be phased in over four weeks, FAA Chief Operating Officer David Grizzle said in a memo obtained by CNN.

The cut that the FAA has is still MORE than what they had last year!!!

[elpadre]

How many of the airports affected have traffic sufficient to warrant a manned tower??

[Wordkraft]

The purpose is to kill people so he can then point his finger at the GOP and whine that they “have blood on their hands.”

[freekitty]

It’s not only Barry throw up; it’s our Congress. They are letting him get away with literally murder.

[gonzo]

for later read ........................................................................................... FRegards

[gonzo]

My ex-partner and I shot enough Touch-and-Goes at Elkhart, IN Municipal to keep the ATCs in business for an additional year back in the early 80's.

When they thanked us for it, I told them to thank Mike (ex-partner) - he's the one that can't fly right. He damned-near dumped our C177-RG into Lake Pontarchain!

I made my bones when I was a kid ......................................................................... FRegards