This means
air-traffic rules and regulations do not differ much when guiding aircraft on Little Rock AFB.
New York (AirGuide - Inside Air Travel) Wed, Dec 17, 2014 - With Thanksgiving, the busiest travel time of the year, behind us, there is a growing problem that could affect air-passenger safety - an impending shortage of
air-traffic controllers, reports Steven Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research.
Air-traffic staff also complained about being included in the two-year pay freeze.
TUNIS (TAP) - The
air-traffic controllers are staging on Monday a sit-in in front of Tunis Carthage international airport to protest against "the policy of exclusion and marginalisation of the head office of the civil aviation and airports authority OACA with respect to their profession." Their trade union called on Monday, in a communique, for wearing a red armband for three days to express their rejection of "the practices of the head office which is knowingly excluding
air-traffic controllers from current wage negotiations." The
air-traffic controllers are claiming the revival and updating of their status which had been cancelled under the former regime in view of the "specificities of this activity and the important role it plays in securing
air-traffic safety ".
They are taking introductory courses now, but by next year they should be ready to try their hand at the centerpiece of the program--the new $600,000
air-traffic control tower simulation system set up at the college.
The Spanish government has approved a reform that could pave the way for private firms to provide
air-traffic control services.
Ex-RAF personnel and those with
air-traffic control experience are exempt from this upper age limit.
AOPA has already made it perfectly clear that it thinks government is a device for extracting fees from the airline-traveling public and then using them to finance an
air-traffic infrastructure that the small-plane community can use pretty much at will.
WHEN THEY COME TO THE FAA'S OTHER principal role--operating the
air-traffic control system--the authors finally reach solid ground.
Europe's air traffic is predicted to double by 2025, and EUROCONTROL, the multinational
air-traffic organization, warns that maintaining cost-efficiency and safety requires the European air traffic control system to increase capacity by 25%.
The jobs are clerical and professional and do not include
air-traffic controllers.