Originally Posted by
Khantahr
The TSA might be the ones who end this shutdown for us. While firing ATC for calling in sick might be illegal (not that that would stop them), they can replace them with military controllers right away.
They can't replace the TSA overnight, so they can't really fire them either.
There is nowhere near enough military controllers, and most of them won't have the quals needed to start up right now.
-Former XO of Navy ATC Unit