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Passengers wringing their hands over delayed flights and lost baggage aren't the only problem plaguing airlines. A near collision on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth airport on April 6 punctuated a six-month period that included 15 other runway "incursions" - a spike from eight during the same period the year before. With air traffic controllers having operated for more than 600 days without a new contract from the FAA, morale among them is at an all-time low, and with just 11,100 fully trained professionals serving the entire country - the smallest number in 16 years - a combination...
...labor dispute a couple of years ago that has now transitioned into a safety issue. The FAA had a mandate from Congress to start running things like a business, to be more cost-effective. That has manifested itself in the rise of runway incursions [airplanes invading each other's ground space]. These are very clearly the result of a reduction in staffing, a decline in experience, and an increase in the use of employee overtime, which leads to increased fatigue. The result is a 300% to 400% increase in operational errors. Listen, this is a great job and I will...
...tell you. In 1991 there was a horrible accident in LA, we - being air traffic controllers - cleared one airplane to land on an occupied runway. We killed 34 people. I was there the next morning, I knew the person that did it. I saw her go out on stress leave. I saw the body bags come out of the airplane, and I can tell you, I've got that sinking feeling in my stomach right now that we're just another day away from another one of those situations. It's going to break my heart, because we've been...
...hoping the safety-related groundings of commercial airplanes that caused havoc for 300,000 passengers around the country last week won't continue into the heavy summer travel season. But the man charged with protecting federal whistle-blowers tells TIME he's got additional cases coming down the runway that could do just that. And the FAA warns that sloppy maintenance work - like that which resulted in the grounding of more than 3,000 American Airlines flights last week - could occur through the end of June as the FAA wraps up a two-phase inspection process...
...really fun,” said model Jeremy N. Tran ’09. This pairing of the unexpected was typical throughout the show. Sanby Lee ’08, the creative director of His/Hers, explored the relation of androgyny to clothing. Female models strutted down the runway in black suits and white collared shirts. At one point, a couple stopped at the end of the runway and exchanged accessories. The woman slipped the tie over her head while her male companion untied her strappy stilettos and slung them over his shoulder. “It’s more...