FAA funding bill: battleground of amendments
February 7, 2016
As Congress begins work on the FAA funding bill, consumer advocates and industry lobbyists go to work to get their favorite amendments included.
As Congress begins work on the FAA funding bill, consumer advocates and industry lobbyists go to work to get their favorite amendments included.
Delta has left the building…or at least the lobby. They’ve announced they are quitting Airlines for America, the lobbying organization that speaks for many of America’s carriers, including the Big 3 legacy carriers. The splitting issue is air…
A small airport in Sweden, as well as a few others, including one in the U.S., are testing taking the air traffic controllers out of the tower, leaving robot cameras to send images to controllers working far away. The idea, ultimately, is to allow…
A strike planned for yesterday and today by French air traffic controllers was cancelled yesterday, but the strike called for tomorrow by the other air traffic controllers’ union is still on, and expected to cause serious disruption tomorrow.
Air traffic in parts of Europe is being affected by a strike of French air traffic controllers, scheduled to last through tomorrow. As a result of the strike, French airspace is closed to most flights, even those not landing in France.
Spanish air controllers are on a two-hour strike this morning, the first of four planned (See Gumbo’s report of the plans). Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the airport operator AENA estimate up to 5300 flights could be affected. …
The Spanish air traffic controllers’ union (USCA) has called for four days of strikes in June to protest punishment of 61 controllers for a 2010 strike. The strikes will take place on June 8, 10, 12 and 14; each will last from 10 am to noon and…
Computer outages in Britain’s air traffic control system are fouling up flights in and out of London, as controllers limit the number of flights to what they can handle without the misbehaving machines.
Flight delays caused by a fire at a major FAA facility near Chicago have had paralyzing effects across a wide area of the country, with planes unable to use normal facilities at Chicago’s O’Hare (a hub for United and American) and Midway (a major…
I always want a window seat, I always want a cloudless day, I like to take pictures from the plane, both for pictorial interest and because the view from above makes interesting, seemingly abstract, patterns. I’ve posted some of them here on…
As Congress begins work on the FAA funding bill, consumer advocates and industry lobbyists go to work to get their favorite amendments included.
Delta has left the building…or at least the lobby. They’ve announced they are quitting Airlines for America, the lobbying organization that speaks for many of America’s carriers, including the Big 3 legacy carriers. The splitting issue is air…
A small airport in Sweden, as well as a few others, including one in the U.S., are testing taking the air traffic controllers out of the tower, leaving robot cameras to send images to controllers working far away. The idea, ultimately, is to allow…
A strike planned for yesterday and today by French air traffic controllers was cancelled yesterday, but the strike called for tomorrow by the other air traffic controllers’ union is still on, and expected to cause serious disruption tomorrow.
Air traffic in parts of Europe is being affected by a strike of French air traffic controllers, scheduled to last through tomorrow. As a result of the strike, French airspace is closed to most flights, even those not landing in France.
Spanish air controllers are on a two-hour strike this morning, the first of four planned (See Gumbo’s report of the plans). Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the airport operator AENA estimate up to 5300 flights could be affected. …
The Spanish air traffic controllers’ union (USCA) has called for four days of strikes in June to protest punishment of 61 controllers for a 2010 strike. The strikes will take place on June 8, 10, 12 and 14; each will last from 10 am to noon and…
Computer outages in Britain’s air traffic control system are fouling up flights in and out of London, as controllers limit the number of flights to what they can handle without the misbehaving machines.
Flight delays caused by a fire at a major FAA facility near Chicago have had paralyzing effects across a wide area of the country, with planes unable to use normal facilities at Chicago’s O’Hare (a hub for United and American) and Midway (a major…
I always want a window seat, I always want a cloudless day, I like to take pictures from the plane, both for pictorial interest and because the view from above makes interesting, seemingly abstract, patterns. I’ve posted some of them here on…