FAA Looks for Money for New Air-Traffic Control System
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Federal aviation officials expect on Monday to begin introducing a proposal to finance a new air-traffic control system that they say will be needed to keep pace with increasing air travel over the next two decades.
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The Federal Aviation Administration  plans to hire 12,000 air traffic controllers over 10 years amid  a wave of expected retirements in the industry, the Wall Street  Journal reported on Tuesday.
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The Office of Fair Trading calls for an inquiry into the supply of airport services by BAA.
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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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Technology to guard airplanes against terrorist missiles is too expensive for commercial airlines and developers should work to come up with something more suitable "as rapidly as possible," a new report says.
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A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President Bush's proposed spending plan for the Homeland Security Department.
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Some airlines have taken the initiative to use satellite navigation and other tools to help smooth out an air traffic system that is plagued by delays.
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Federal Aviation Administration's high tech system will use GPS and satellite signals to let more aircraft take to the sky more safely.
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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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A new option for air travelers in North America may soon be a &#36;10-&#36;12 portable entertainment system stocked with movies, music videos and online news.
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced a plan yesterday to hire 12,500 air traffic controllers over the next 10 years, in an effort to replace nearly three-quarters of the agency&#39;s
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As air travel woes worsen, their costs in time and money are demanding increased attention.
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Onboard satnav data to replace scanning radar The US aviation regulator has selected ITT Corp to provide a new generation of GPS satnav-based air traffic control equipment, awarding a $207m, three-year initial contract.â¦
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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The Transportation Security Administration last week moved forward with plans to test its new Secure Flight passenger-screening system.
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Handy for flying cars, machine genocide against fleshies DARPA, the US warboffin bureau which curls a supercilious lip at established wisdom and tweaks the nose of consensus opinion, has decided to press ahead with its automated artificial-intelligence air traffic control system.â¦
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Federal authorities on Tuesday unveiled a plan to hire 12,500 new air traffic controllers to offset an expected wave of retirements, but the controllers union says the proposal came too late