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...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...
...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...