To everyone in the Aviation industry, Pilots, Flight Attendants, Mechanics, Technicians

[turbinetree]

do you think it is time to have a "National Strike"....................to support the FAA, Custom Agents, FBI, TSA, ATC, USDA, etc......................they are all tied to your industry........................are you safe, is the public safe..................is your company safe ....................if something were to happen......................think about it.................do you think that you can maintain this stupid dangerous status quo...................?

As a former flight line mechanic working on a lot of commercial airplanes in my life..................do you want to be held responsible if something should happen, because of one orange temper tantrum baby in the white house, and one senate majority leader with 43 republicans senators thinking that it is just fine to screw with security at the terminals, eliminate and overload ATC , eliminate overload FAA inspectors for both check rides, and ground maintenance, eliminate and overload the TSA for passenger screening, have no custom inspections for baggage or people coming to and fro on international flights, lack of inspections of food such as produce by the USDA, or medical items, lack inspection on flight operations for cargo ................do you think that if something happens that if it was your Airline that has this problem, that you could survive.................go back to 9/11, two major carriers had to file for bankruptcy and merge to survive.................and the economy crashed.......................for over 5 days........................do you think that this situation of putting the public in danger because two individuals don't give a shit except for some wall and some political gamesmanship to a party is worth that.....................to the flying public...................


Do you think that this can last, and think nothing can happen, the odds are working working against this ..................are you safe....................?

[bluecollar2]

1. You mean go back to the illusion of safety?

Everything you mentioned was going on, before the shakedown, on flights originating outside the US.

Most heavy maintenance is now outsourced to companies outside the US...El Salvador and China come to mind and a lot of the A and B checks are also.

Personally,I am in favor of a series of short-term work to rule, co-ordinated "chaos" actions throughout the industry. Start with ground handling operations, maintain ramp speed etc...

But I get your point.

[cpamomfromtexas]

2. The railway labor act controls whether airline unions

Can strike. Do away with that act and airline people will be happy to strike.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Keep in mind that the majority of airline employees are not unionized.

And after a good 40 years of nonstop union bashing, and the entire "Right to Work" bullshit, the vast majority of people in this country don't understand the importance of unions or the good they have done for the average worker.

My point is, there's simply not the kind of consensus that could lead to that. There's a distant possibility that ALPA, the AirLine Pilots Association would decide that safety is sufficiently compromised to call a general pilot's strike, but I wouldn't count on it.

Chances are something terrible would need to happen that is clearly a result of the shut down, and even then Trump and the entire GOP would cast the blame elsewhere.

[flamingdem]

4. Is it in fact not safe to fly now?

Am planning a possible trip next month but worry things will deteriorate. Am assuming ticket prices will drop also if passengers see disruption on the news.