tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post6625068142117076335..comments2024-03-24T10:57:10.838-04:00Comments on Get the Flick: Catastrophic FailureDon Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219887691182501386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-69556400451599552772011-05-06T11:50:05.164-04:002011-05-06T11:50:05.164-04:00Back during the Cold War there was no way this cou...Back during the Cold War there was no way this country would have stood for consolidations of infrastructure as critical as the National Airspace System (NAS), yet we have politicians today willing to bet the farm on natural disasters that everyone knows are inevitable. Even today, a shutdown of just one Super TRACON such as what happened at SoCal a few years ago because of a brush fire results in millions of dollars in economic damage to the airlines and the economy. Such economic damage from even one shutdown can easily nullify a decade's worth of cost benefits associated with the consolidation.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027573405416583035noreply@blogger.com