Federal air traffic controllers miss first paycheck amid government shutdown
NBC News·2025-10-29 23:22

Tomorrow is going to be less safe than today. When an air traffic controller isn't 100% focused on the job that they do day in and day out, that puts the system at risk. It puts the less safe and every day that this drags on, that risk increases in the system.>> So today is the first day you've now missed a full paycheck. What kind of tension is going on inside these towers and traycons. >> It wasn't even just a full paycheck.We had a partial paycheck last time. So air traffic controllers worked over 120 ho ...