BoredGamerIt's just a matter of time now
I don’t think Reagan’s strategy of firing them all and hiring a new bunch of air traffic really works in this day and age because the job is significantly harder than it used to be and the pool of people who can and want to do it is not much larger than the existing pool of air traffic controllers.
driving_croonerHow much traffic are now compared to that day?
DuckDuckGo search assist (don’t have time to confirm accuracy) tells me there were 5,000 flights in the air at any given time over the US in 1989, and there’s are 10,000 at any given time over the US today.
I was expecting a lot more grew.
I’d guess there are larger planes than they had then too
Perhaps harder and stronger