Word: faa
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...strike but a challenge to the law of the land. The agency maintains that the strike is officially over and that the workers will never be able to return to their jobs. PATCO gamely insists that its mem bers will eventually be back in their towers. Meanwhile, the FAA is continuing its efforts to take away PATCO's rights to bargain for workers with the Government. The Federal Labor Relations Authority is expected to rule on the issue this week...
...lanes are now being monitored by some 10,000 controllers, about 7,200 fewer than before the strike: 5,700 of them are PATCO members who refused to walk out or nonunion controllers; 3,000 supervisors; 850 military draftees; and 450 new employees. The FAA has nearly 900 students enrolled at its academy in Oklaloma City, which has gone on double shifts for the 17-to 20-week courses and is planning to increase its training capacity still further. Even at that, it will be perhaps three years before the controller system is fully restaffed. It is unlikely that...
Many of the big carriers are now doing well because their large aircraft, which were often flying half full before the controllers went on strike, are carrying more passengers, since the FAA is allowing fewer flights to take off. Their load factors-the number of paying passengers on each plane-were often up during the month of August as compared with a year ago (see chart). Fewer nights carrying more passengers can mean profits for airlines that had been losing money because of the industry's excess capacity. Said Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis: "We feel we will have...
...country is safe," reported O'Donnell. Bill Reynard, chief of the Aviation Safety Reporting System, a NASA-managed monitoring agency, agrees. Says Reynard: "So far we haven't seen anything out of the ordinary that would cause us to pick up the telephone and call the FAA...
...effect on safety than about adjusting their operations to meet the reduced schedule of flights-and cut down on the estimated $30 million a day now being lost by the industry. Administration officials continue to insist that the 12,000 striking air controllers are fired, and the FAA has turned its attention to rebuilding the air-traffic control system, a task that may take two years. To that end, the agency began accepting applications last week for air controller jobs, which pay $20,462 to start. More than 59,000 completed forms were received within the first two days...