Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.
“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.
“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”
Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.
I’m kind of glad I didn’t plan that trip to Germany, now. Been considering relocating permanently, but I need to go and look around first. Cheapest flights are around late Oct to November.
I wonder how long it would take to get there if you booked passage on a boat.
Edit for the lolz: https://www.cruisecritic.com/find-a-cruise/destination-germany/departure-port-new-york
A few years ago the USA banned buying a cargo space for use as a ferry, that would have been super cheap and made moving my electronics and tools a lot easier.