The FAA has now shuffled two of the persons of interest and the topic of the whistle blowing testimony before Congress last week.  Where is Donald Trump when you need him?  Obviously, no one at the FAA can say “You’re fired!”

Thomas Stuckey is still working at the FAA but is no longer the agency’s director of flight standards for the five-state southwest region, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said Monday.

Stuckey is the man who came under fire (not fired) last week in Congressional testimony, due to mishandling Southwest Airlines inspections in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.  Well, he didn’t exactly mishandle anything.  He just didn’t do his job.  There were no inspections.

Brown said Stuckey was moved to “an administrative position that doesn’t have safety oversight.” She declined to comment on the reasons for the move.

Stuckey is the second to have been shuffled.  The other was Douglas Gawadzinski.

The chief maintenance inspector, Douglas Gawadzinski, still works for the FAA but has no responsibility for safety decisions, a top agency official said last week.

Please note how both these men have been moved to an administrative position where they do not have “safety oversight.”  Apparently, that is somewhat of a demotion, although not the termination each deserves.  And, the question that remains is was there a cut in pay?  Probably not.  It’s probably a position in the company and in the F* agency that does not allow for wage cuts.  So, we are paying more for less.

Not bad.  Less responsibility.  Same pay.  I say call in the Donald for a good old “You’re fired!”