New York
- "FAA: More controllers at JFK, LaG" - New York Daily News - Oct. 13, 2005
- "Airports to get gear to spot planes on ground in rain" - The New York Times - Nov. 3, 2005 - Circulation: 1,121,057
- "After chiding, FAA to give N.Y. airports radar technology" - The New York Sun - Nov. 3, 2005 - Circulation: 40, 500
- "Software to stop runway close calls" - Newsday - Nov. 3, 2005 - Circulation: 580,069
Television/Radio
- CBS Radio - Estimated Audience: 450,600 - Nov. 2, 2005
- ABC Radio - Estimated Audience: 764,100 - Nov. 3, 2005
- FOX - Estimated Audience: 454,187 - Nov. 2 and 3, 2005
- TOTAL ESTIMATED AUDIENCE COVERAGE: 1,668,887
New York Daily News: FAA: More controllers at JFK, LaG
Thursday, October 13, 2005
The Daily News reported, "As air traffic in the New York area skies grows heavier, the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday announced plans to hire 38 additional air-traffic controllers for Kennedy and LaGuardia airports...Lately, air traffic controllers have come under intense scrutiny for a high number of errors in flight operations in local skies. And Phil Barbarello, eastern region vice president for the National Association of Air Traffic Controllers, charged that the FAA's latest plans will not make local skies any safer...'It's frightening to me that the FAA would distort the truth to such a degree and put the flying public in peril,' said Barbarello, a 22-year air traffic controller."
New York Times: Airports to Get Gear to Spot Planes on Ground in Rain
Thursday, November 03, 2005
The Times reports, "The Federal Aviation Administration will install all-weather aircraft detection systems at 14 busy airports, including the 3 biggest in the New York area, the agency said Wednesday. The decision follows a series of near-catastrophes on runways, including one at Kennedy International Airport last summer in which the controllers' radar system was blinded by rain...John S. Carr, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said in a telephone interview that the agency had been 'dragging its feet,' but that the announcement was a good start. Referring to the equipment to be replaced at Kennedy and at Logan International in Boston, he said, 'A system that has to be turned off in bad weather is not really what you want in a radar system.'"
New York Sun: After Chiding, FAA To Give N.Y. Airports Radar Technology
Thursday, November 03, 2005
The Sun reports, "Just two hours after air traffic controllers finished lambasting federal authorities yesterday for leaving the New York region's major airports off a list to get new radar technology, the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington made a surprising announcement: New York was suddenly back on the list...The agency's early afternoon announcement was news to the controllers, who first learned about the change from reporters after holding their own press conference at Kennedy Airport. 'We're satisfied that they're announcing that they're doing something, but it's sad that we didn't hear it from them,' a representative of Newark Liberty International Airport's air traffic controllers' union, Russ Halleran, said....The technology, called Airport Surface Detection Equipment Model X, or ASDE-X, detects movement on runways and taxiways by creating a continuously updated map of all ground operations at an airport. Most importantly, officials say, ASDE-X is an improvement over the existing system because it works in bad weather."
Newsday: Software to stop runway close calls
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Newsday reports, "A new software system will be installed at the nation's largest airports - including New York's big three - to help controllers prevent on-the-ground collisions, considered to be one of the biggest safety problems in aviation, the Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday...The current system, installed at the nation's 34 largest airports, cost the federal government more than $90 million. But its shortfalls became public after the Kennedy near-collision.Yesterday the FAA said it will put the new software system - originally designed to only serve smaller airports - in control towers at major airports including Newark, Kennedy and LaGuardia beginning next year. But the agency did not offer a timetable for the installations in New York. The cost will be $8.5 million for each airport."