"Controllers do not feel prepared to add this new
workload to their already overstretched limits. What we have now,
courtesy of the FAA, are all the ingredients for an aviation
catastrophe and it both saddens and infuriates me. The men and
women who actually know something about air traffic control in
these regions -- the controllers -- were unceremoniously shoved to
the side by the FAA and DOT on this initiative while foolish
decisions were made in their absence."
Source: Patrick Forrey, president of the
National Air Traffic Controllers Association, hours after the
announcement of new procedures to be put in place by the government
to combat flight delays and congestion along the East Coast of the
United States. New departure procedures and r
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