Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Tuesday that disruptions at U.S. airports will get worse as the government shutdown continues, using some of the most alarming language yet about the state of air travel. Air traffic controllers and TSA agents are currently working without pay, which has caused an uptick in workers calling out sick […]
Sean Duffy Warns Air Travel Is Going to Get Worse as Orlando Sees 2.7 Hour Delays
Flight delays at America’s airports got worse this week, as the government enters day 31 of the shutdown and air traffic controllers are going without pay. Orlando International Airport in Florida saw an average delay of 2.7 hours overnight because there weren’t enough air traffic controllers on staff. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has suggested […]
Flight Delays in the U.S. Are About to Get Much Worse
Roughly 6.6% of flights in the U.S. were delayed on Thursday due to absences from air traffic controllers, according to Reuters. That’s only a little worse than the average, which sits at 5%. But it’s about to get much worse, if history is any guide. Previously, that number has hit 53% in previous government shutdowns. […]
Sean Duffy Says He Doesn’t Want Air Traffic Controllers Working as Uber Drivers During Shutdown
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy held a press conference at Newark Airport in New Jersey on Monday to talk about the government shutdown, which is currently on its sixth day. And it was filled with misinformation about why the government has shut down and what it’s going to take to open things back up. If […]
Trump Clears the Way for a Dystopian Air Taxi Future
Donald Trump, who was backed by a bunch of tech billionaires during this past presidential election, is busy transforming America into a corporate dystopia straight out of the 1980s science fiction films that those billionaires have long admired for all the wrong reasons. For one thing, Trump has fully embraced AI—helping to cut what little […]
Trump’s DOT Threatens to Pull Funding for California’s High-Speed Rail
California’s long-promised high-speed train project, first approved in 2008, has hit lots of roadblocks in its development process, and now it may be looking at the end of the road. The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation released a report this week that does not paint a pretty picture of the project, and DOT head Sean […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Explains Why He Canceled Wife’s Newark Flight
Under the current administration, what constitutes a bad airport has taken on a whole new meaning. Although Newark Liberty Airport was never anyone’s favorite, its series of outages and worker shortages are concerning. But don’t worry. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy insists that Newark is perfectly safe. And his decision to change his wife’s flight to […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife’s Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have […]
Radar Screens Go Dark at Newark Airport (Again)
Radar screens that monitor Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey went completely black for about 90 seconds early Friday morning, according to a new report from ABC News. The outage comes after an identical problem last week when air traffic control screens for the same airport went dark for about 60-90 seconds. The radar […]
Sean Duffy Doesn’t Want Air Traffic Controllers Retiring After 25 Years
Air traffic control staffing at U.S. airports is near a 30-year low, and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk has been doing his best to make sure it stays that way with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has an idea to fix it. Duffy thinks air traffic controllers shouldn’t retire at […]