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air-traffic-control

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  • The FAA's top air-traffic-control official quit amid the controversy over controllers dozing on the job.

    What's News: World-Wide 2011

  • Last Wednesday, more than a week after the internal FAA debate was disclosed at the Natca conference, Mr. Babbitt told a congressional committee that an air-traffic-control supervisor had been found napping during the midnight shift at the Knoxville, Tenn., airport.

    Dogfight Over Catnaps in Air Tower Andy Pasztor 2011

  • So the administration proposed a $100 tax on each flight departure, including corporate jets and general-aviation aircraft that require federal air-traffic-control services, in a bid to more evenly spread out the burden of those costs.

    Airlines Balk at Tax Proposal Susan Carey 2011

  • The Federal Aviation Administration's top air-traffic-control official resigned in the wake of more than two weeks of unrelenting public criticism and controversy over incidents of controllers falling asleep while on duty.

    World Watch 2011

  • That includes interstate highways, rail lines linking Midwest farmers to West Coast ports, and equipment for planes to link up to a new satellite-based air-traffic-control network.

    Plan for Highway Bank Faces Uphill Battle Josh Mitchell 2011

  • Officials also say that small private jets need to shoulder more of the burden of the air-traffic-control system.

    Airlines Balk at Tax Proposal Susan Carey 2011

  • That's when controllers at the Orlando regional air-traffic-control facility asked the pilots of Southwest Flight 821 to perform some high-altitude surveillance.

    Planes Too Close; Controller Cited Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Canada's national railway and air-traffic-control system were privatized.

    How Spending Cuts—Not Higher Taxes—Saved Canada Fred Barnes 2011

  • Some of flights had to divert not because of the snow but because the Federal Aviation Administration's ground-based air-traffic-control systems at Kennedy and Newark encountered problems on Saturday, said the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the operator of those airports.

    JetBlue Investigated for Tarmac Delay Susan Carey 2011

  • The Nasdaq situation has set off alarms within the government because of the exchange's critical role, which officials put right up with power companies and air-traffic-control operations, all part of the nation's basic infrastructure.

    Nasdaq Acknowledges Security Breach Devlin Barrett 2011

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