Sequester-Induced Air Traffic Delays - Needless and Senseless Misery Being Inflicted on the Commerical Air Traveler

As if commercial air travel is not enough of a misery in this era, we now have the dysfunction of the federal government making it worse through the sequester-induced partial layoff of air traffic controllers, which has begun to bring about senseless and needless delays in take-offs and landings.

 
Just as the major airlines have begun to become somewhat profitable, a new roadblock has been thrown in their way, one which is certain to diminish revenue.

 
Is there no less painful means that can be found to excise a relatively paltry $85 billion in federal spending this year, no fat that can be cut from annual outlays of almost $4 trillion which would not cut into the bone of essential government services such as air traffic control?  How about reductions in corporate and individual welfare programs?  (The federal government has recently committed $160 million of taxpayer dollars to build new public housing in the city of Pittsburgh, this at a cost of a staggering $400,000 per unit.)

 
I am thankful that I fly rarely, and that a vacation which entailed air travel earlier this month was able to take place without missed connections or undue delays.  Why would anyone elect to fly when the experience is becoming increasingly impossible to justify?  I pity those that have no choice but to travel what have become the most unfriendly skies.  Thanks a lot, Congress and President Obama, for throwing a wrench into the lives of many and making it more difficult for major airlines and other businesses to operate efficiently and profitably.