Originally Posted by buzzpat

As one who has spent the past three days flying multiple legs domestically, amen. It's a charade and its going to backfire big time. The FAA spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on consultants...that hasn't been slashed. Dump the consultants and pay the controllers and problem solved.

Or, how about this? ATC guys take a 30% pay cut across the board like the rest of us did and keep on keepin' on.