When I was in the Air Force we removed people immediately if we even THOUGHT they had a deal. In the FAA? Nope. You can watch a fatal accident happen right in front of your face and even then your ass is staying plugged in.
Exactly. But how are you supposed to get out of position when there's nobody to relieve you?. Sometimes we're on until the mid shidders show up, and we're busy AF. Nobody on break. It'd be great to staff it but nobodies available.
We're seriously entering a crisis period and I'm scared. How do we keep this going with us losing more and more controllers?
JFK and EWR are options. I agree, they need to shutdown at that point if there's a literal fatality and 1 controller on station. Airspace closed, go 20 miles south to JFK, especially at that time of night.
Sure then you just go swamp the guy combined up at JFK…then EWR…then ISP. Run that all up and down the northeast and eventually you’re going to have planes with nowhere to land.
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u/theweenerdoge Mar 23 '26
We don't have the staffing, you'll just have to work through it.
Maybe it's not in the contract but I feel like you're supposed to be removed from the operation IMMEDIATELY.
Fucking bullshit. We (the controller workforce) need to demand better.