The Department of Transportation might be forced to shut down the airspace in certain parts of the country if the government shutdown continues into next week.
Big commercial airlines are not going to do that. Sure, general aviation can. That doesn’t matter for the parts of the system that affect the stock market.
There was a cargo plane (747? 737?) that flew VFR. It’s not impossible but would greatly reduce the rate of arrivals/departures.
It’s kind of unprecedented at where we are headed. I wouldn’t expect them to do this normally, but desperate times may lead to desperate measures. We’ll see (even though I don’t think air travel is a need)
If the airlines industry crashes though, our economy is royally fucked though so
Large commercial airlines already fly to untowered airports. It’s not incredibly common, but it does happen.
If as others have said, it massively reduces the number of flights that can be handled at once; you almost certainly won’t see parallel landings at an uncontrolled airport, for example. But it wouldn’t completely stop air travel.
Big commercial airlines are not going to do that. Sure, general aviation can. That doesn’t matter for the parts of the system that affect the stock market.
There was a cargo plane (747? 737?) that flew VFR. It’s not impossible but would greatly reduce the rate of arrivals/departures.
It’s kind of unprecedented at where we are headed. I wouldn’t expect them to do this normally, but desperate times may lead to desperate measures. We’ll see (even though I don’t think air travel is a need)
If the airlines industry crashes though, our economy is royally fucked though so
The economy is 5 companies in an AI trenchcoat. It’s already fucked.
Everyone is starving, inflation is terrible.
Trump sits at the resolute desk. He types into his computer “ChatGPT, is the economy good?”
“Yes” it replies
…… and SCENE
Large commercial airlines already fly to untowered airports. It’s not incredibly common, but it does happen.
If as others have said, it massively reduces the number of flights that can be handled at once; you almost certainly won’t see parallel landings at an uncontrolled airport, for example. But it wouldn’t completely stop air travel.
Right, the scale is what matters here.