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Travel Hat

(138 posts)
Fri May 9, 2025, 05:47 AM May 2025

About 400 employees layoff from the FAA in February

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has said no one at the Federal Aviation Administration with a “critical safety” position has been fired as it cuts the federal workforce, but some FAA jobs that were eliminated had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and airport operations, according to their union and former employees.

About 400 personnel were let go starting Friday. There is still not a complete picture of who was fired, but the union representing about 130 of them said the staffers included aviation safety assistants, maintenance mechanics and nautical information specialists.

They are the types of workers tasked with helping aircraft safety inspectors, repairing air traffic control facilities and updating digital maps that pilots use in flight, such as making any changes that the FAA may direct for airplanes flying in Washington airspace following last month’s fatal midair collision.

https://apnews.com/article/faa-firings-trump-doge-safety-airlines-27390c6a7aac58063652302df5a243d3

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard anyone mention this.

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About 400 employees layoff from the FAA in February (Original Post) Travel Hat May 2025 OP
No plans to ever fly again a strong enough defense? Brainfodder May 2025 #1
How could they hildegaard28 May 2025 #2

hildegaard28

(792 posts)
2. How could they
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:54 AM
May 2025

Say that when they are just blindly firing people. They don’t know who does what. They just follow Musk’s idiotic idea of firing people until something breaks then bringing back who they think are essential people. It’s the most moronic way of firing people.

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