FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances" (for discussion, not breaking news)

In My Humble Opinion
41

For any Doper in an airport or who has friends / family out there…

Professionally speaking:

Even if FAA completely solves this problem by midnight local time Fri night (unlikely IMO), Sat & Sun will be an absolute shambles & Mon won’t be great.

Find a hotel to hole up until Tue, or rent a car and expect to sleep in it except in cities wo airline airports.

Gonna be bad. The knock-on effects of a 12-hour nationwide ground stop will take several days to overcome. If it gets to 24 or 48 … we’re in nearly unprecedented territory.

Damned glad I’m both home & retired.

42

AI says planes can fly VFR in class G/E airspace during a ground stop. If true it is unlike 9/11.
(So GA planes can fly)

Brian

43

Well, Dear Leader is spending his evening tweeting about movies, so I assume it’s every man for himself.

44

I wonder if Air Force One is also grounded tonight. It would be fabulous if Trump had to drive out of town for anything tonight. The Democrats could give him a golf clap.

45

Not tonight. It’s already after 8pm eastern. Past his bedtime.

46

My husband is flying home from Japan on Tuesday (Tokyo-Haneda to SFO). Any over/under on whether there will be delays, or if they will be back on schedule by then?

47

Family and I are supposed to fly back home from Orlando tomorrow morning. I just hope we make it before Sunday.

48

Just posted by Gavin Newsom: “Governor Gavin Newsom is honored to present Sean Duffy with the inaugural Super Intelligence (SI) Award for modernizing America’s aviation network. Under Sean’s visionary leadership, the FAA has eliminated late arrivals by eliminating departures.”

49

Would you prefer him to be down in the trenches, taking charge, personally managing the crisis?

50

Ugh. My daughter and wife are stuck in the Atlanta airport, about four hours away. I’m getting ready to hop in the car and go pick them up. Not how I planned to spend my Friday night, but then, not how they planned to spend it either.

51

Oh, it’s that bad, huh?

52

Sean Duffy is attacking Congress for not putting enough money into air traffic control. I didn’t really he’s a Democrat.

53

Markwayne Mullin just admitted that the new AI technology wasn’t compatible with the floppy disks. All they need now is a $50 billion (their number) contract with someone to build a whole new system.

Who would that someone be? How much will Trump charge for the contract?

54

I’m supposed to fly back east from Vegas tomorrow. I’ve been staying at the Mandalay Bay for a week, but just booked Circus Circus for 4 nights starting tomorrow just in case, as I really didn’t want to pay Mandalay Bay prices if I can leave earlier. Hopefully it will just be thrown away money, but I’m assuming at least a day delay.

55

My condolences.

56

@LSLGuy how does rebooking work? Because you have all the folks who booked for tomorrow with very few if any open seats.do they add flights?

Thanks,
Brian

57

So the whole thing was likely a scam to pocket 50 billion.