PROFESSIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ORGANIZATION V. REAGAN: THE STRIKE THAT HELPED SHAPE U. S. LABOR RELATIONS Thirty one years ago, when President Ronald Reagan threatened to fire approximately 13,000 air traffic controllers unless they called off an illegal strike, the president not only transform...
Collision course: Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed AmericaBook reviewsNonfictionAir traffic controlStrikesCollective bargaining[CIP McCartin] (history, Georgetown Univ.) has written a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Professional Air Traffic ...
Air traffic control positions are highly competitive jobs, and the controller workforce is relatively young (most were hired after the air traffic controller strike in the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan ordered that all striking controllers be fired). Air Traffic Controllers Work at local ...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday it was taking steps to improve its air traffic control operations after a series of near-mis…
In 1981, President Reagan fired the nation’s air traffic controllers after they went on strike. The current privatization debate is unrelated to that labor dispute.
Makes slots at the FAA’s academy available to those who haven’t done air traffic control training in colleges and universities The FAA hadgone to off-the-street hiring to meet diversity goalsbut the problem was there weren’t enough training slots, and qualified control...
at Washington DC’s Reagan airport, Duffy attributed the crash to “our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system”. Having delivered that verdict, he named his predecessor, President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg as the man responsible for the state of US ...
Just over 24 hours before the fatal collision, a different regional jet had to go around for a second chance at landing at Reagan National after it was advised about a military helicopter nearby, according to flight tracking sites and control logs. It l...
https://gizmodo.com/you-have-never-seen-so-many-f-16s-ready-for-battle-in-y-5866971 Like the last choreographed work of plane porn (orgy?) we showed you, this is another “elephant walk.” But here, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base assembled more F-15E Strike Eagles than most countries ...
"We never received a warning of the traffic from (air traffic control) so we were unaware it was there." Many people, including Democratic US senator Tim Kaine, pointed to this near miss as evidence of why a plan to allow more flights into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport should ...