it is wildly deranged how the US treats ATC. the pay seems OK at a glance, but the training requirements, stress, and working conditions make it difficult to recruit and retain people.

so, in naturally capitalist fashion, they treat them like none of this is true, like the workers are just appliances that can be summoned at will from a factory, and management runs everything on the heroic efforts of a skeleton crew… making it all worse on the workers and the whole thing fumbles when somebody takes a sick day because there is no redundancy.

and like, i dont fly anymore. probably most americans don’t fly at all, or if they do its less than once a year. but a shitload of rapid logistical BS relies on cargo flights, and rich people love to hop all over on a whim.

so major delays are going to absolutely infuriate the bourgeoisie who are used to the world at their fingertips.