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Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:18 |
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Posted by Janice Wood · May 24, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has awarded former FAA Administrator Jane Garvey with its Sentinel of Safety Award, its highest honor for those outside of the organization who have displayed outstanding achievements in the advancement of aviation safety.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:18 |
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Poor leadership and funding make it unlikely modernization of the air traffic control system will meet its 2025 deadline, officials told Congress.
By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek
April 22, 2010 02:34 PM
An ambitious project to build a next-generation air traffic control system has run into a snag due to poor leadership, limited funding, and other challenges that make it unlikely to be completed on schedule, a panel of witnesses told a House subcommittee this week.
NextGen is a plan to overhaul the stressed and outdated air-traffic control system in the United States by 2025.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:16 |
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By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor
April 21, the Transportation Department Inspector General, Calvin Scovel, spoke before a House panel regarding the cost and progress of key NextGen technologies and what he had to say wasn't all good. According to Scovel, the En Route Automation Modernization system (ERAM), set to be a major part of the FAA's NextGen system, is experiencing trouble at its Salt Lake City launch site. ERAM is costing the FAA $14 million per month in bug fixes and other deployments, and is likely to be deployed behind schedule. Also, according to Scovel, the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure program may not work well with NextGen programs. That system suffered a failure last November that delayed more than 800 flights. The two projects together account for a $4.6 billion stake in NextGen's estimated $40 billion cost. The failings, according to Scovel, can in part be blamed on failure of the FAA to effectively oversee contractors and may result in significant cascading delays.
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 13:07 |
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A project to deploy more advanced aviation technology won't affect the air traffic control workforce this year, but meeting future operational demands could challenge Federal Aviation Administration planners, according to observers.
On Wednesday, FAA released its 10-year plan for recruiting, hiring and training air traffic controllers through 2019. It's too early to know how NextGen, an ambitious $20 billion program to replace the agency's radar-based air traffic control system with a satellite-based network by 2020, will alter staffing and controller workload, the report says.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:08 |
Expect more flights crowding the nation's busiest airports, FAA says
By Jon Hilkevitch
Tribune staff reporter
7:21 AM CST, March 9, 2010
Passengers on U.S. airlines will pay relatively small increases in airfares over the next 20 years, but they should expect more flights crowding the nation's busiest airports, including O'Hare International, the Federal Aviation Administration said today.
Travelers hoping to stretch out across an empty seat next to them will likely be out of luck. And the small regional jets that are so unpopular among a significant segment of passengers are here to stay, although the commuter airlines will begin retiring their 50-seat jets in favor of somewhat larger aircraft.
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