And when they did strike, as I recall, Reagan kept the planes flying . . . unlike the crap we’re seeing from this Admin with the impact to flying aircraft.
Flight activity during the PATCO strike in the 1980’s was severely reduced. Slots in and out of airports were limited to a fraction of their normal capacity. During the first few days of the strike, I made a killing in my charter business because the weather was good and I needed very little in the way of air traffic control services. Then the weather turned bad and I had no income for several days.