Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount carrier: "If you take away the airlines' prerogative of scheduling flights when the passenger wants them, then you take away deregulation and put everything in the hands of the FAA. That was certainly not the intent of the people who wrote the deregulation legislation...
...drop of 2,850, or 17%, since President Reagan fired striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981. Says Delta Chairman Garrett: "The main reason for the delays is that the air-traffic system has not been brought back to where it was by the FAA." The agency has promised to add 1,400 controllers by Sept. 30 of next year...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
...five people were killed when a plane crashed on a ridge near by, and a year later there were two near-misses in the air. Still, the Federal Aviation Administration has turned down San Luis Obispo's requests for a tower. "Since the air controllers' strike, the FAA'S position has been to decommission towers rather than commission them," says George Rosenberger, the airport's acting manager. "We feel we qualify for a tower, but it's a very expensive process...
...Chicago, Denver and Newark. In Denver, for example, there are 58 scheduled landings between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., although the airport's maximum is 30. The Government threat infuriated some carriers, which place much of the blame on shortages of fully qualified air-traffic controllers. One FAA official likened the airlines to a stubborn beast of burden. Said he: "Sometimes there's only one way to get a mule's attention...