Originally Posted by
steved5480
People, Seriously?
A daily/nightly event for months all over the country. At least a couple of instances recently where 4+/- Centers (identifier starts with a Z) were all ATC Zero in one night.
Your best resource for the Big Picture is here:
https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/advAdvisoryForm.jsp
Leave the check-boxes as they are; you can change the date drop-down to go backwards for a rolling two weeks.
Click "Show Selected Advisories", the hyperlink next to the advisory number for "Operations Plan" displays The Big Picture. Normally the Operations Plan is updated every 2 hours.
Remember that all times displayed are UTC.
I was going to respond something along these lines initially, but the link in the first post said they would be closed until the 30th - that would be a bigger deal than going atc0 for a few hours during a mid or even reducing hours of operation. That's happened plenty with little impact. I don't think this (so many controllers were exposed that they can't operate even at minimal staffing) has happened to a tower this size yet. I'm not exactly certain that's what's going to happen (really? SNA over a major holiday?) but if it does, it's a bit more intense than a days later midnight cleaning crew.