Air traffic monitors are offering the closure government: NPR

WASHINGTON – more than a month after the last government closure in 2019, a few air traffic monitors reached the point of collapse.

There was only a “slight increase” in the pathological leave in two facilities in Virginia and Florida dealing with high traffic, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. But it was sufficient to throw some of the main eastern coast airports in chaos.

With the closure of another ongoing, American airlines are preparing again for the possibility of delay and disturbances in commercial aviation.

You have the reality of human beings, and a lot of [whom] “The safety margin is always protected. But what happens is that we restrict the amount of aircraft that the regime can carry,” said Dennis, a merchant, a long -time pilot for American airlines and a 16,000 spokesman for the union.

This is what happened on January 25, 2019, when a number of FAA air traffic monitors forced traffic to reduce traffic at Laguadia Airport in New York, along with other major airports from Newark, New Jersey to Orlando, Florida.

On the same day, President Trump agreed to measure temporary government financing, and actually ends the longest closure in the history of the United States after 35 days. Exactly what these disturbances in commercial aviation are related to the financing deal open for the interpretation, although some observers believe it was an important factor.

Washington lawmakers appear out of an agreement to end the closure of the current government, which started early on Wednesday morning.

Unlike the previous closure, the Ministry of Transport says it will retain the Air traffic controller at the Open Federal Aviation Administration, which is part of a batch to achieve ambitious employment goals.

However, the closure will harm nearly 14,000 of the current control units through which they must work, although they will not receive their salaries until it ends.

“It is an unnecessary distraction” in addition to what is already “one of the most tired jobs in the whole world,” said Nick Daniels, head of the National Air Force Watch Association, in a video message to the members published on Sunday.

“We have people who will have to decide, do I take a second job? Do I have to do Uber? Do I have to find a source of income during this time?”

But Daniels urged observers to be professionals – and appealed to them not to participate in any kind of coordinated job procedures, because this may push the Trump administration to try to remove the union.

“Our professionalism and credibility will be considered. Not only your career is at stake, but the right to obtain a union will be at stake at that time,” Daniels said at the last city hall meeting with the members.

The Federation denies any role in slowing the nation’s airspace in 2019. But as this incident explained, even a small number of control units calling for patients can have a major impact.

“It is a disaster for me,” said a current air traffic controller who deals with flights at a major American airport. He asked NPR not to use his name because he is afraid of revenge on FAA.

“I am working at the highest level of air traffic control as a profession, and I am facing financially,” the observer said. “And he lost a salary – perhaps I can miss one. But that will hurt greatly.”

The observer said that the morale in the workforce is less than it was six years ago, as the lack of employment increased, and the wage was stolen. Air traffic monitors are believed to be contacted again with patients.

The observer said, “It should not be organized.” “I think enough people will make an individual decision that they do not feel that they will work that this will not last huge time.”