However, many smaller FBO-serving towers are staffed by Contract Controllers, who are employed by private companies holding FAA contracts.
These contract controllers generally continue to receive their pay during a shutdown, shielding them from the immediate financial crisis affecting their federal counterparts.
In the current electorate, Democrats are supported by a majority of both low-income and high-income voters. Republicans even it out by having a majority of the middle income voters, especially those without a college degree.
It didn't use to be like this. But now it is.
I think those areas would probably need air traffic controllers.
there are uncontrolled airports with runways large enough for jets.. like Alpine Wyoming.
[1] Just a tiny two seat thing, I don't come from billionaires, it wasn't a cool private jet.
putting aside weather that is true or not and just assume it to be true for the later argument
then it is the perfect chance to replace a public service the country depends on by a billionaire controlled private company
thats how you convert a country to an oligarchy, bit by bit replacing essential parts with entities privately owned and (most importantly) controlled by a few people so that a country "has to" depend on them to function and they can use it as leverage to force through their interests
to be fair, this might not be the intend here. A lot of the shutdown seem more blind ideological driven then well calculated, but it's a potential danger anyway
That's... concerning to anyone who has tried or witnessed a trivial rewrite. Let me hold some hope in the institutions that be to stop this from being hastily deployed.
kinda the norm for musk ideas
He is wrong about that.
That being said... there's a lot of low-hanging fruit to pick in terms of efficiency gains for the current system.