FAA plans air traffic controller hiring surge
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Federal Aviation Administration officials unveiled a plan Tuesday to replace three-quarters of the air traffic controller workforce by hiring 12,500 controllers during the next decade.
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With a big new boost promised from the nation's busiest airline, Southwest Airlines Co. , a long-brewing revolution in US air traffic control is finally poised for takeoff.
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Air traffic controllers said Friday they will be forced to work even when they're tired after the Federal Aviation Administration imposes a new contract this weekend.
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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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The Phoenix president of the air traffic controllers union said an FAA plan to condense training, create part-time slots and depend on split-shift schedules is a poor way to deal with an impending nationwide controller shortage.
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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
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NEW YORK -- As federal regulators and airline executives grapple with the nation's growing flight delays, they are focusing on what many believe is the epicenter of the snarls: surging air traffic at this city's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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The federal government is expected this week to award a contract worth more than $1 billion to build the key components of its next-generation air traffic control system -- a high-tech network that officials say will alleviate chronic flight delays.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 14--QUINCY -- The recent hiring of 15 technicians at Microsoft's data center here is the first wave of what officials say could be a job boom for skilled workers.
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First-quarter hiring plans among US employers increased from the same period a year earlier, according to a survey released today by Manpower Inc.
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Four companies are planning to hire more than 10,000 workers for new homeland security-related jobs in Virginia over the next five years, Gov. Mark R. Warner is to announce today.
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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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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
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Several hundred US Airways employees have volunteered to work at the airline&#39;s operation at Philadelphia&#39;s airport this holiday weekend, the Washington Post reports.
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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.
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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 number of armed pilots has grown even larger than the air marshals program