Here's hoping the airline pilots and air controllers union slowdown
backfires in their faces:


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AVflash Volume 9, Issue 48b — November 27, 2003
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U.S.-LIKE SYSTEM BRINGS AIRSPACE ANGST TO OZ
Today might not be the best for traveling in Australia. The nation's
airline pilots were threatening to throttle back near airports,
ostensibly to prevent colliding with light aircraft they claim have
been thrown into their airspace by new airspace designations and
regulations, which, incidentally, are modeled after the U.S. system.
"People who are probably the least experienced operators of aircraft
are being allowed unfettered access to commercial airspace," Ted Lang,
president of the air controllers union, said in a statement. The
slowdown was expected to throw airline schedules into chaos, and
further indignities awaited passengers unlucky enough to be on board
the pokey airliners. Increased cabin checks were planned and
passengers were to be buckled up below 10,000 feet in case the crew
had to take "evasive action."
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