More than 863 flight delays were attributable to furlough-related staffing shortages on Wednesday at air traffic facilities in Chicago, New York, Washington, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Detroit and Dallas, the FAA said.
The agency is also still considering eliminating overnight shifts at 72 air traffic facilities, including some at major airports like Chicago's Midway International and General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee.
The FAA responded in a statement, saying that since September 11, it has increased security at many air traffic facilities.
No, said Melvin S. Davis, top NextGen official at the National Air Traffic Controllers Association union.
Europe also has controller-pilot text messaging in use at two air-traffic control centers, and should have its system fully implemented by 2015.
"That guy passed us now and that was not good, " the pilot of American Airlines flight 951 told the controllers at New York Air Traffic Control Center, the country's busiest.
Ann Marie Brennan, a manager at the air-traffic control office, was quoted in the report, released on August 2, as saying the radar display showed the two planes "pass right over each other".
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Air traffic operator at Nottingham Airport, Dave Tower, said "aviators could become confused about who to call and what radio frequencies to use".
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Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate approved a measure on Thursday aimed at ending budget-related air traffic controller furloughs that have been blamed for widespread flight delays this week.
The biggest gains are expected to come in marginal weather conditions and at night, when the air traffic system can get bogged down as controllers cautiously build more space between planes.
The agency said it had no choice but to subject most of its 47, 000 employees, including tower controllers, to periodic furloughs and to close air traffic facilities at small airports with lighter traffic.
In addition to furloughs, the FAA is planning to eliminate midnight shifts for air traffic controllers at 60 airport towers, close over 100 control towers at smaller airports and reduce preventative maintenance of equipment.
And Democrats and Republicans are going to have to explain what implementation of the sequester will mean in terms of job loss, furloughs, reduced economic growth, closure of airport towers, or reduced hours for air traffic controllers at their airport.
The good news is that the FAA has delayed to June the decision to close 149 air traffic control towers at general aviation airports around the country.
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He was on first-name terms with air-traffic controllers at J.
So we are beginning today discussions with our unions to likely close more than 100 air traffic control towers at airports with fewer than 150, 000 flight operations per year.
Central European time from Manching Air Base and climbed to a ceiling of 54, 000 feet within military controlled airspace, far above and at a safe distance from civilian air traffic.
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The ATA also wants Congress to put more of the cost burden on "general aviation"--including private and corporate jet travel--which commercial carriers say is largely responsible for air-traffic delays at congested airports.
John Smith, head of Air Traffic Management strategy at Thales, told the BBC that the two issues make a compelling argument for change but admits that not everyone is persuaded that the current system, which has been in use since World War Two, needs an overhaul.
President Bush ordered steps on Thursday to reduce the long delays at airports ahead of the holiday season, hoping to ease air traffic congestion that has increasingly angered travelers and left many passengers stranded at airports.
Additionally, air-traffic control towers at 149 smaller airports nationwide are slated to be closed starting April 7.
No one should ever be scheduled to work alone at night in a critical job like air traffic control.
The new time-limit rule, and the possible exemptions at JFK, will create many difficult air traffic decisions when "push comes to shove" about who gets priority, he said.
Again, China was only at 1976 U.S. air passenger traffic levels in 2009 (and decades further back as a percentage of the population), and Credit Suisse projects China to reach 1986-1987 U.S. levels, or 432 million people, by 2015.
But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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"We are doing everything we can to assist customers during delays and cancellations, but we anticipate the issues to continue until an overarching solution is implemented, " she says, asserting that general air traffic control problems are at least partly to blame.
On the other trip I never got there at all, not due to weather or air traffic but straightforward United incompetence.
Indonesia air traffic is forecast to grow at 20% a year, and the country's economy is growing at about 6% a year.
Once signed into law, the fix will send air traffic controllers back to work until at least October 1.
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