In order to exclude temporary furloughs, separation had to exceed 30 days to qualify.
What furloughs mean is that people lose a day of work and a day of pay.
The FAA maintains it has examined all options and concluded it can't prevent furloughs.
Unions usually have the final say on how the furloughs will be implemented, said Colleen M.
The initial plans for across-the-board furloughs do not distinguish between essential and nonessential personnel.
We don't know where it is going to lead us as far as furloughs.
The Internal Revenue Service had previously announced five planned daylong furloughs beginning on May 24, 2013.
Furloughs also hit the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget and the Interior Department.
The furloughs are landing on air-traffic controllers as much as they are on less vital FAA jobs.
What about all the coaches and football operations personnel around the league taking reduced pay and furloughs?
Details of the furloughs are still being finalized, and the FAA hasn't asked carriers to cut flights.
And the Secret Service presented options that ranged from canceling tours to potential furloughs and cuts in overtime.
Robert Isom, head of operations at US Airways, said the FAA furloughs were like a "wildcat regulatory action".
Susan Collins said she worried that continued FAA furloughs could jeopardize jobs throughout the travel and hospitality industry.
At least that's what he says when he's not claiming that the furloughs of air-traffic controllers are unavoidable.
Unpaid furloughs of federal workers, however, might not begin until April, May, or even later in the year.
The White House is betting that Republicans will receive the blame for any air-travel delays and job furloughs.
The furloughs also created delays for developers and municipalities needing technical assistance or approval of housing projects, officials said.
The aviation agency has said it can't avoid furloughs in the course of complying with the mandated budget cuts.
Friday, airline trade groups and the country's biggest pilots union sued the FAA to try to stop the furloughs.
Of course, in the short term, there will be some layoffs and furloughs.
A.A. calculated that the furloughs would affect up to 6, 700 flights a day.
Next on the list could be furloughs at major airports that would mean flight delays for millions of travelers.
But it has predicted flight delays when it begins furloughs -- one third of whom are air traffic controllers.
Furloughs of civilian workers, perhaps the most noticeable element of the cuts, aren't scheduled to start until early April.
The sequester will surely require worker furloughs and cutbacks in certain nonpriority services.
Airline trade groups and the country's biggest pilots union sued the FAA on Friday to try to stop the furloughs.
Even with air controller furloughs, air controllers will be handling fewer flights per hour of work than six years ago.
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Similar furloughs, as well as reduced services, were expected at other agencies if the cuts don't get replaced or eliminated.
The exact number of total furloughs planned is still unavailable, since agencies are still deciding how to spread the cuts.
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