http://www.jetwhine.com/2007/12/senator-durbin-air-traffic-controllers-to-faa-hello/ Aviation buzz and bold opinion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.jetwhine.com/2007/12/senator-durbin-air-traffic-controllers-to-faa-hello/#comment-33559 Jeff Walukonis Thu, 15 May 2008 13:22:06 +0000 http://www.jetwhine.com/2007/12/senator-durbin-air-traffic-controllers-to-faa-hello/#comment-33559 The FAA has met it's goal of running like a business. They are just like the airlines now. They cut the pay of new hires, freeze the pay of all the older workers, and give the resulting millions of dollars to the managers in the form of salary, cash bonuses and Plasmas for their office. The FAA has now announced they missed their Flight Plan metric for this past performance year. One of the 5 items they failed was "Customer Service"...passengers should not feel vindicated though...according to the FAA their customers are NOT the passengers. So what was the result. 12 million more dollars was removed from the workers salary this past January and will be given to managers and supervisors this June...where did they get these creative managers???? the airlines?? The FAA has met it’s goal of running like a business. They are just like the airlines now. They cut the pay of new hires, freeze the pay of all the older workers, and give the resulting millions of dollars to the managers in the form of salary, cash bonuses and Plasmas for their office.
The FAA has now announced they missed their Flight Plan metric for this past performance year. One of the 5 items they failed was “Customer Service”…passengers should not feel vindicated though…according to the FAA their customers are NOT the passengers.
So what was the result. 12 million more dollars was removed from the workers salary this past January and will be given to managers and supervisors this June…where did they get these creative managers???? the airlines??

]]> http://www.jetwhine.com/2007/12/senator-durbin-air-traffic-controllers-to-faa-hello/#comment-24124 FAA’s Bobby Sturgell Needs to Check His Voicemail … Now - Jetwhine: Aviation Buzz and Bold Opinon Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:43:50 +0000 http://www.jetwhine.com/2007/12/senator-durbin-air-traffic-controllers-to-faa-hello/#comment-24124 [...] The dramatic increase in the number of close calls both on the ground and in the air over the past six months, as well as the November GAO report warning that safety in the nation’s skies will become even more compromised without significant change seems to be falling on deaf ears at 800 Independence Ave.  Controllers are working way too much forced overtime to make the system function. [...] [...] The dramatic increase in the number of close calls both on the ground and in the air over the past six months, as well as the November GAO report warning that safety in the nation’s skies will become even more compromised without significant change seems to be falling on deaf ears at 800 Independence Ave.  Controllers are working way too much forced overtime to make the system function. [...]

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