Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This is a publicity stunt...if they really wanted to they could have absorbed the cuts elsewhere.
Most notable...these contract towers are not staffed by GS employees. So no government union members are impacted.
Yep.
Did you know...??
All of the specified towers were operational in 2009, when the FAA received less funding than it will under sequestration. Since 2000, the FAA’s operations budget has increased more than 50 percent, while domestic air traffic has declined 27 percent during the same period. Under sequestration, the FAA is required to cut $637 million, or roughly
just 5 percent, from its $12.5 billion budget.