What a way to run a railroad – the FAA is shutting down!

The writing has been on the wall for some time. Approval of the reauthorization bill (the all important act of Congress that ensures funding to the FAA) has been a convoluted process year after year and there have been a few near misses already. But this time they have done it!
The FAA went into partial shut-down last Friday… incredible but true. 4000 non-essential employees were furloughed and no money for the aviation trust fund can be collected or paid. Air traffic controllers are not affected but all FAA Regional offices will be closed and only essential personnel will come to work.
The impact on the aviation trust fund is a cool 200 million bucks lost revenue per week and in all likelihood the schedule of NextGen will also be adversely affected.
Of course thus may sound like peanuts compared to the very real danger of the US itself defaulting on its debts if no agreement is reached in raising the credit ceiling by 2 August but still…

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