ATC stand and deliver? (was: O'Hare Controllers Raise Alarm, Blame Small Planes

"Newps" wrote in message
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Sydney Hoeltzli wrote:
Newps wrote:

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IOW, you're saying if ZTL is understaffed, blame NATCA for
poor negotiation?

Not necessarily. There are a lot of facilities in the Southern region.
Others may have a greater need.

LOL! That's a hoot! The Southern Region is full of fat and happy towers
and four not so happy Centers.



In order to fully staff ARTCCs and maintain system safety, are
controllers in general prepared to "give" anywhere else?


Not really. While I feel for Chip and others stuck in that hell hole
and others like it there's no way I'm going there. Not for a lousy
$150K per year.

The money is great. All I have to do is live long enough to spend it. I
believe that I can hang in for the next 12 years and then retire with a fat
account. I'll be 48...

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One guy, especially many guys, can be the motivating force which
start the ball rolling and get NATCA and trade groups involved.

You mean like PATCO?


NATCA is working at it. How hard I can't say as staffing is irrelavant
to me right now, has been my whole career.

Staffing seems to be irrelevent for most FAA towers/terminals that I am
aware of. They have people. NATCA is 60% tower/terminal controllers and
they have tended to focus on tower/terminal issues. That's why
privatization is such a bugaboo for them- they recognize that FAA is on a
slippery slope after the Contract Tower program and that *all* of the towers
could be on the block at the stroke of a pen. That's a threat to their main
constituency. It doesn't take any imagination with Boeing ATC waiting in
the wings to see that the ATCSCC and all of the ARTCC's could follow...

Chip, ZTL