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Federal transportation officials and the major union representing air-traffic controllers agreed to a 2.8% pay increase, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal also aims to end a work practice that drew scrutiny after a deadly crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport earlier this year.
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Federal transportation officials and the major union representing air-traffic controllers agreed to a 2.8% pay increase, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal also aims to end a work practice that drew scrutiny after a deadly crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport earlier this year.
Italy’s air navigation provider ENAV said air traffic capacity was fully restored Friday after an overnight failure in the data transmission network supporting air traffic control services nationwide. The disruption cut capacity by half and led to widespread flight disruption, with Cirium counting 192 cancellations by noon.
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The FAA is pursuing a potential ownership arrangement with Air Space Intelligence, developer of SMART, a system for managing airspace, routes and trajectories. The reported negotiations would give the agency an equity interest in a company working on AI tools for air traffic management; terms and timing were not provided.
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An overnight failure in the data transmission network supporting air traffic control across Italy forced ENAV to halve traffic capacity. A satellite backup network raised capacity to 75% by midday, but cancellations at Rome Fiumicino and delays of up to four hours at Lamezia Terme persisted; ENAV ruled out a cyberattack.
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Repeated Houthi missile strikes on Riyadh International Airport are underscoring the risks to a narrow airspace corridor carrying hundreds of daily transcontinental flights. With instability spreading across Europe and the Middle East, the 85-nautical-mile-wide sliver has become a critical vulnerability for global aviation.
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In episode five of “Aviation Start,” FAA center controller Marcus Miller—known online as PropHatCat—explains CTI and Enhanced CTI routes into air traffic control, the Academy washout rate, contract towers and controller earnings. The discussion lays out the different entry paths and employment settings for prospective controllers.
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The FAA is bringing back a program that lets air traffic controllers ride along on commercial, general aviation and military flights. Controllers can observe cockpit procedures and pilot workload in real operating conditions; the program had been paused at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee are asking the GAO to review the FAA’s developmental air traffic management system and have urged the agency to pause its use until questions are answered. The tool analyzes schedules and factors such as weather to predict traffic flows; lawmakers warn it could produce inaccurate, safety-critical information.
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