Layoffs hit FAA, including employees tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps
The Trump administration's layoffs across agencies have hit the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has laid off over a hundred probationary employees, including some of those who work on the team responsible for producing air traffic navigation maps, multiple sources tell ABC News.
"132 probationary employees represented by PASS" were terminated," a union said. "We believe all of these employees are critical not only to the frontline safety workers, but to the entire aviation ecosystem," Professional Aviation Safety Specialists National President Dave Spero told ABC News in a statement.

Some of the employees affected were part of the FAA's Air Traffic Organization en route charting group, which is responsible for maintaining and updating enroute navigation charts used in the National Airspace System and by air traffic controllers around the country, sources tell ABC News.
"If we're no longer there to create the maps that air traffic air traffic controls are using, mistakes will eventually happen," one of the FAA employees who was laid off told ABC News.
The FAA and the Department of Transportation have insisted no critical employees were let go.
-ABC News' Will Steakin, Sam Sweeney and Ayesha Ali







