FAA to step up air-traffic hiring
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To keep up with air-traffic growth and avoid massive delays, the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said it plans to hire 12,500 controllers during the next 10 years.
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Air traffic is seen increasing steadily worldwide in 2004, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday. Passenger traffic for 2004 is expected to increase by 11 percent from a year ago, the
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President Bush ordered transportation officials to take steps to reduce delays in the nationâs overcrowded airspace.
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PHILADELPHIA - US Airways appealed to its employees to come to Philadelphia International Airport on their days off this weekend to help boost staffing levels, and ensure there are no echoes of the Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few
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The Transportation Department's inspector general is reviewing air traffic control tower staffing policies after last month's plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people.
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Retirements of veteran air traffic controllers have surged beyond government expectations since the Bush administration imposed a contract on their union on Labor Day last year, new data shows.
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The US continues to work to ease airspace congestion, the head of the FAA told reporters at a Monitor breakfast Wednesday. On Thursday, the FAA is expected to award a contract for a new air traffic control system.
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Air travel is expected to surge dramatically over the holiday period that begins today, but extra workers at airports across the USA should keep delays to a minimum, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
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Far more veteran air traffic controllers than the government expected have retired since the Bush administration imposed a contract on their union on Labor Day 2006, new data shows.
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced a plan Tuesday to hire 12,500 air traffic controllers and let some existing workers stay on the job longer than their mandatory retirement age to offset a tidal wave of looming retirements.
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday kicked off efforts that could reshape the communications services available to airline passengers.
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Pilots blazed the trail. Now, reservations and gate agents at US Airways (otc: UAIRQ - news - people ) gave their thumbs-up to a new deal Thursday.
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FORT WORTH American Airlines and its regional affiliate plan to add 70 flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by next summer.
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The Federal Aviation Administration plans a hiring spree to replace the thousands of air traffic controllers expected to retire in the next eight years.
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The Transportation Security Administration said yesterday that it expanded a program to conduct security checks that could affect more than 100,000 foreign students seeking flight training in the United States and U.S. certified pilots who are noncitizens.
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Aviation executives are sharing a list of steps they can take to make passengersâ lives a easier the next time a blizzard or another event strands planes on the ground.
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The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it would hire 12,500 replacements to fill the jobs of 11,700 air traffic controllers expected to retire by 2015.