Word: faa
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...abatement equipment in their fleets would cost $1 billion and bankrupt many of them. Moreover, Richard H. Judy, director of the Dade County aviation department, predicts that more than 6,000 aviation jobs in Florida and an additional 1,000 south of the border will be lost unless the FAA extends the deadline to Jan. 1, 1988. So far, the FAA seems unwilling...
According to the FAA, delays increased by 75% during the first six months of 1984. In June alone, 40,852 flights were at least 15 minutes late, an increase of 106% over June 1983. Accounting for 60% of the delays are a handful of airports in the New York metropolitan area, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta and St. Louis. Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman reckons that this year the slow-ups have cost his line more than $30 million. The air-traffic-control system, he says, "is clearly overtaxed at this time...
...three-day closed-door meeting held at FAA headquarters in Washington last week, a 40-member panel of Government experts and airline officials groped for a plan that would ease congestion at peak periods. Observes TWA Vice President Jerry Cosley: "Our scheduling is realistic in economic terms, but unrealistic in terms of the available infrastructure." Airline executives warned that carriers will not voluntarily risk losing passengers by scheduling more flights at unpopular times. Still, in response to FAA requests, the panel recommended that the airlines seek to spread out their peak-hour schedules. Also proposed were changes in airborne routings...
...federal air controllers have been without union representation. Now, just as the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to lift the last of the strike-related traffic restrictions from the airways, three groups of controllers in New York and the Washington area have petitioned to reunionize. Their complaints: overwork and FAA mismanagement, the same charges that led to the PATCO strike...
...return of the skies to full capacity may be part of the problem. "There are tremendous amounts of overtime and rushed training," charges David Kushner, of the American Federation of Government Employees. FAA officials have not yet decided whether to challenge the calls for union elections. But FAA Chief Donald Engen insists, "The system is safe...