It's airlines versus corporate jets in a Capitol Hill dogfight over the air traffic control system.
Contract controllers are a widely used but little-known part of the FAA's air traffic control system.
Actual flight performance has gotten more unpredictable because of problems in the air-traffic control system.
It is hard to imagine the air traffic control system functioning with its budget cut by 15 percent.
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"Weather is the great equalizer in the air traffic control system, " Church said.
One of the FAA's major projects during the next five years is to revamp the air traffic control system.
How in the world can our air traffic control system survive if air controllers are working ten percent fewer hours?
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For example, the interstate highway system, air traffic control system and even the Internet were the result of DoD projects.
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Closer to home, airlines have struggled this week with delays caused by a slowdown in the federal air traffic control system.
And Congress is torn over a bill that would help fund a satellite-based air traffic control system to ease aerial bottlenecks.
The FAA predicts that delays will increase 62 percent by the year 2014, given projected passenger growth and the antiquated air-traffic control system.
The second thing that we need to do is we've got to upgrade our air traffic control system, which is a little creaky.
If all continues to go well, the results will be plugged into the airport's air-traffic control system for real within a few months.
And we will restore 150 miles of runways and advance a next generation air-traffic control system that reduces delays for the American people.
"If they go ahead with this the UK will be the only country in the world to privatise its air traffic control system, " he added.
Not everyone sees the private sector as the answer, though Poole is certainly not alone in criticizing a traffic control system increasingly seen as obsolete.
Take the chaos that has engulfed Brazil's airports for the past six months, the result of a creaking air-traffic control system operated by disgruntled air-force staff.
Now UPS is testing a technology designed to close that gap and, possibly, bring sweeping new efficiencies to the entire air traffic control system without compromising safety.
Anyone who has flown in or out of those terminals knows that they are hardly models of efficiency, and one reason is the pre-modern U.S. traffic control system.
Mr Westendorp faces a huge agenda: the creation of a common air-traffic control system, free media and reformed police forces, to name just three objectives (all of which the Serbs resist).
The bad news: The FAA wants to replace these taxes with a more complicated combination of user fees and taxes in order to upgrade the nation's aging air traffic control system.
Consider last week's fiasco involving the air-traffic control system.
As the battle over funding the Federal Aviation Administration and upgrading the nation's air-traffic control system comes to a head, anyone with anything to do with airlines is scrambling to get aboard.
The real problem is an antiquated air-traffic control system "that is essentially based on World War II-era technology, " says Victoria Day, a spokeswoman with the Air Transport Association, the industry's lobby group.
The administration's funding authorization expires Sept. 30, and it needs more money to address the booming volume of air traffic, primarily because the air traffic control system needs safety and security upgrades.
The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
Mr. Cote is a longtime advocate of modernizing the Federal Aviation Administration's air-traffic control system, and has told industry officials heexpects to play an important role in devising ways to help airlines finance improvements.
The American Jobs Act includes an immediate investment in employing construction workers to restore 150 miles of runway at American airports and put in place a next-generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays.
In one corner is the ATA. They say the number of small aircraft and corporate jets exploded from 1, 800 to 18, 000 since 1970, jamming America's air traffic control system, but the fees paid haven't kept pace.
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