Posts Tagged ‘air traffic controller’
ATC lunch breaks may force Air New Zealand to cancel flights
Air New Zealand says it would be forced to cancel 25 regional services because of air traffic controllers’ lunch break.
US Federal Aviation Administration okays satellite-based air traffic control system
In a move that is bound to revolutionise the way air traffic will be tracked and controlled in the United States, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the green signal to deploy satellite-tracking systems across the country, replacing the current radar-based approach.
With GPS, US-based airlines can save $10 billion in fuel costs a year, says report
Airlines based in the United States could save as much as $10 billion a year in fuel costs by 2025 if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the US, upgrades air-traffic control from the radar-based system to a satellite-based one.
In US, attrition rate of new air-traffic controllers is very high
Air-traffic controllers appointed recently are leaving jobs at “dramatically higher rates” in 2008, United States Congress has been told.