Word: faa
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...Reagan Administration had, in effect, decided to ignore PATCO, whose increasingly discouraged members continued to picket the Federal Aviation Administration's regional and airport radar centers. The struggle thus was reduced to a test of the FAA'S ability to carry on with some 3,000 supervisors, 5,000 non-strikers and 900 military controllers until new replacements can be trained. | The system was operating , at roughly half of its former I level of staffing. Over the long run, the key question apparently would be one of economics: Could U.S. airlines, some of them already in financial trouble...
...profitability of the airlines, in turn, hung heavily on whether the U.S. flying public perceives the curtailed controller system as safe-and, finally, on whether it actually performs safely. The public was not especially reassured by Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis' assertion that the FAA had recorded 17 instances in which either unidentified voices or interfering signals had been heard on the radio channels on which pilots communicate with controllers. The FBI and Federal Communications Commission were investigating the illegal transmissions...
Last week, as the FAA continued to cut prestrike flights in half during peak hours at 22 major airports and limited flights nationally to about 75% of normal, even the fewer airliners flying were not full. In what is normally the heaviest travel month, millions of potential passengers were staying on the ground, apparently worried about unsafe skies, or shying away from the uncertain schedules. The airlines reported losses of nearly $30 million...
...TIME correspondents visited control towers, interviewed substitute controllers and quizzed air-safety experts, they found little cause for public fear. Indeed, there was evidence that the FAA's plan to reduce and smooth out the flow of air traffic was making flying in some ways even safer. The working controllers were going about their jobs with an esprit de corps that had been sadly lacking when the more militant unionists, spoiling for a strike, were among them. Declared Frank Arcidiacono, a former controller now a supervisor at the Los Angeles radar center, as he noted the pickets outside...
...FAA'S computer-plotted plan, originally drawn up by former Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond when he learned more than a year ago that PATCO seemed determined to strike in 1981, requires each airline operating at a major airport to reduce its flights by a specified percentage that varies with every hour of the day. At New York's La Guardia, for example, the cutback jumps from 27% between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. to 49% in the following hour. At Chicago's O'Hare, the heaviest reduction, 60%, is between...