Won't look like much of a hijacking by NWA when all the 747's, 757's, and 330's are in ATL painted in Delta colors.
Ever hear of a wolf in sheep's clothing..
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Won't look like much of a hijacking by NWA when all the 747's, 757's, and 330's are in ATL painted in Delta colors.
we might give SEA some 767ERs...
Until there's more pavement to land on, I doubt that a "more efficient" ATC system will help. I think the special interests are trying to sell something....
stlflyguy
I've always found it funny how nothing bad can ever happen to Delta. Even when Delta was about to go tits up, everyone was saying how great Delta was. Again, there's a lot of good people at Delta, but I think all your heads are in the sand. Furloughs and reductions are coming.....they just want you on board with the merger. Good luck.
I'm guessing you haven't been in an ATC facility in the past 20 years? It's eye opening to see massive mainframes that still have those vaccuum tube things in them . ..
Why, for example, are there 16 area centers? How does this make any economic or organizational sense when real time data is available? One primary facility and one backup makes far, far more sense.
(That is, unless you're a Congressman who likes having a huge, wasteful government facility in your district. Or one of numerous area-facility middle/upper level management types that has alot to lose if things consolidate).
The GAO, which is totally non-partisan, routinely criticizes the FAA/ATC system as one of the most wasteful, non-innovative, non-able to modernize branches of government. They've written books on the subject for the past decade, at least, and you can look it up if you'd like details.
Bottom line . . more pavement would help. But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to modernization.
Until there's more pavement to land on, I doubt that a "more efficient" ATC system will help. I think the special interests are trying to sell something....
stlflyguy
.... Everybody needs to relax....
Bye Bye--General Lee
Okay, great. So you replace the Univac's with a bunch of up-to-date computers. You still have the issue of funneling aircraft to land on the pavement provided. You can get as many aircraft in the sky as you want, but it'll still take at least one minute between the one aircraft who crosses 50' above the threshold for landing and the next aircraft to depart the same piece of pavement. Provide more well suited runways and you'll increase the number of operations. NIMBY soon rears its head.
While I somewhat agree with centralizing ATC helping with the budget, it doesn't necessarily help with the redundancy. I also think that congress has created it's own monster with the FAA by giving certain mandates to the agency while financially hamstringing the execution of such mandates.
stlflyguy