Air Traffic Controller - fronted by singer-songwriter and former real-life Navy
air-traffic controller Dave Munro - has a great, upbeat indie sound that positively drips with enthusiasm and verve.
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.
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 ".
IMPACT said the current level of traffic coming through Dublin could only be maintained if staff resumed overtime or the IAA recruited trained
air-traffic controllers from overseas.
The Iranian jet had not been warned by American
air-traffic controllers to change course; the Cessnas had been warned by Cuban
air-traffic controllers.
Arbitration is a fair, open and balanced means to settle the differences between AENA and the
air-traffic controllers. And it would avoid debilitating disruption to Spain's economy," said Giovanni Bisignani, head of IATA.