No sequester delays for Air Force One

Posted by hpayne on April 25, 2013

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This week has been an unpredictable nightmare for the nation’s air passengers as President Obama’s sequester strategy targeted the nation’s airports, unnecessarily furloughing 10 percent of air traffic controllers in order to visit maximum pain on travelers (in order to provoke them into blaming Congress for the sequester, so the strategy goes). Despite legal discretion to prioritize cuts, the White House made no effort to do so – thus no priority was given to keep essential air controllers on the job over non-essential FAA community planners, and no priority was given to Detroit Metro Airport over Pellston Airport.

Priority was made, however, for the architect of the sequester flight delays.

Whereas flights in the Dallas area (like Detroit) had been beset with sequester delays, AIr Force One took off from Love Field in Texas with no problems Thursday night after the president’s day in the Dallas area.

“6:43 p.m. local, Love Field — potus and flotus emerged from Marine one, holding hands and talking to each other as they walked to AF One,” reads the president’s press pool report. ” They climbed aboard and we are rolling toward takeoff.” Off on time, back in DC at 10 PM – right on schedule.

Apparently it’s only the huddled masses that have to feel the sequester pain.

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