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		phendrenad2 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shut... This whole shutdown seems engineered to enable privatization. I wouldn't be at all surprised if ATCs get outsourced to some federal contractor.

nullocator 38 days ago [–]

Didn't DOGE/Musk try this or at least talk about it? Like modernizing the whole system or something? I don't think the turn around time on such a conversion would be very quick. I'm not sure there are thousands of qualified controllers waiting in the wings private sector, though maybe I'm wrong about that.

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