Save Orlando
Despite repeated safety warnings and fierce opposition from air traffic controllers and a bipartisan Congressional coalition, the Federal Aviation Administration moved forward, in a mad pre-Inaugural dash, with separating the tower and radar approach control jobs for Orlando air traffic controllers -- who are already stretched thin due to staffing shortages, seriously jeopardizing the safety of the flying public.
During the week of January 26, 2009 the union brothers and sisters of NATCA are protesting the FAA's plan, engaging in informational picketing at Orlando International, hoping that the demonstration will spur the flying public to raise the alarm as well. If the FAA wont listen to subject matter experts and government representatives then maybe it will listen to the flying public.
Click here to read the letter written by a 15-member bipartisan Congressional Florida delegation asking that the FAA postpone the deconsolidation.
Click here to read FAA Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski's disingenuous reply to said delegation and here to read NATCA's reply
The latest fact sheet concerning the safety, or lack thereof, of the newly split Orlando International air traffic control facilities has been released.
Previous media coverage on the Orlando deconsolidation
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