Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
#uspoli #uspolitics #deportations #ice #racism #Trump #airlinesafety #airlines
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights
My problem with stories like these isn't that the mistakes happen, but when they happen, Air Canada's response is either to be cold and indifferent, or sometimes openly hostile to passengers, such as escalating issues to court when they've been settled by the tribune.
US airlines mandate preflight bladder vacuum and enema to save 20 cents per person per flight. First class a-holes excluded, they will be fed pound cake pre-flight. Commoner people upgrades excluded from first class benefits. #airlines #PassengerAdvisory #USA
Airlines Could Save $100 Million A Year If Everyone Went To The Bathroom Before Boarding - View from the Wing https://viewfromthewing.com/airline-lavatory-fee/
My flight to #EWR landed 25 min late. I only had 50 minutes to begin with and needed to change terminals. It was a bit of a jog through Newark.
They made an announcement asking folks to sit and let those of us with tight connections to get off first. About 200 people did that. I guess the farther you get from the White House and Calitol, the closer you get to generally decent people.
Next stop: Edinburgh for #Securitay
#travel #airlines
Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue
> Nearly 300 Federal Aviation Administration employees were fired just weeks after a midair collision over Washington, D.C., killed 67 people. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/hundreds-faa-employees-let-go-trumps-mass-layoffs-continue-rcna192458 #aviation #airlines #us #DonaldTrump #FAA #MAGA
"Elon Musk — the richest person on the planet — forced Michael Whitaker to step down as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration immediately after Trump’s inauguration. That was because the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes. Whitaker’s absence left a power vacuum at the agency. Just sayin’."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump ##Musk AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos #racism #media
/13
"Then the traditional media covered up for his racism.
They even made excuses for him."
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos #racism #media
/12
"Even as bodies were still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a racist, partisan, and dishonest rant on Thursday, blaming diversity hires and Democrats for Wednesday’s calamitous nighttime collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft outside Washington’s Reagan National Airport."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos #racism #media
/11
"The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one."
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/10
"Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was 'not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,' according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.
~ Sydney Ember and Emily Steel
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/9
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/air-traffic-control-staffing-plane-crash.html
"Heads of TSA and Coast Guard axed, leaving chaos in their wake.
Government thrown into chaos with air traffic controllers being sent ‘buyout’ offers when there is already a shortage of air traffic controllers
All of this occurred within the last ten days."
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/8
"In just 11 days, Donold wreaked havoc on aviation safety:
100 senior FAA officials fired, taking decades of experience with them.
The Aviation Security Advisory Committee disbanded, silencing the experts who could have prevented this."
~ God
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/7
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/the-dc-plane-crash-is-100-trumps
"At the same time, Trump also fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard."
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/7
"On Tuesday, January 22, the Aviation Security Advisory Committee’s members received a memo from the Trump administration saying that the Department of Homeland Security was getting rid of the membership of all advisory committees in a 'commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security."
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/6
"Last week, just days after his inauguration, Donald Trump eliminated the membership of a key committee that handles aviation security. And on Wednesday night, a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area."
~ Hafiz Rashid
But hating immigrants and members of minority communities and owning the libs is just so darned satisfying. Why worry about safety?
#Trump #AirSafety #airlines #airports #AirTrafficControl #travel #chaos
/5
https://newrepublic.com/post/190934/trump-aviation-safety-committee-dc-plane-crash
