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TITLE: SENS. MENENDEZ AND LAUTENBERG CONDEMN FAA FOR RETALIATION AGAINST AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
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U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) are demanding that the Federal Aviation Administration use its time and energy ensuring the safety of air travelers rather than retaliating against air traffic controllers. This action comes in the wake of New Jersey-area controllers seeking whistleblower protections from the FAA, which has reportedly retaliated against them for disclosing safety concerns surrounding new flight paths for Newark Liberty International Airport that were rushed into implementation.
Senators Menendez and Lautenberg have been vocal critics of the FAA’s rush to implement its “airspace redesign” for the New York and Philadelphia regions. Air traffic controllers have sounded the alarm about the FAA’s failure to provide updated guidance for departing flights under this redesign and the serious safety issues that have resulted.
The New Jersey Senators have blocked Acting Administrator Robert Sturgell’s nomination to be made the permanent Administrator from proceeding in the Senate until he shows a commitment to addressing a range of safety and efficiency issues plaguing the most crowded airspace in the nation.
PDF of letter to FAA: http://menendez.senate.gov/pdf/071108FAAAirTrafficController.pdf
Text of letter to FAA:
July 11, 2008
The Honorable Robert A. Sturgell
Acting Administrator
Federal Aviation Administration
8000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20591
Dear Acting Administrator Sturgell:
We write out of continued concern for FAA’s safety regulation and management
of the New Jersey-New York airspace. Recently some alarming reports have
surfaced regarding the agency’s alleged actions to silence air traffic
controllers who have complained about the lack of published flight patterns at
Newark Liberty International Airport. Since the so-called “dispersal headings”
were put into effect last year, air traffic controllers have been asking for
updated Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) to be published. Not only has the
FAA still failed to provide written procedures, but it now appears to be
retaliating against its critics.
On a larger scale, the deteriorating relationship between FAA management and air
traffic controllers is of grave concern. In the crowded metropolitan airspace,
it is absolutely essential that we have a full staff of experienced, completely
certified controllers. We ask that you take steps to begin to repair FAA’s
relationship with its safety professionals, including air traffic controllers.
A cooperative partnership means a more efficient airspace and a safer public.
This is particularly urgent given the ongoing wave of retirements and overall
lack of experienced controllers managing the planes in our skies. For example,
we are aware of the FAA’s difficulty in retaining developing controllers at
Newark tower in particular.
We urge you to act before it is too late. The poisoned relationship between FAA
management and its employees must not continue. The people of New Jersey
deserve an FAA that can make our airports and skies over our communities as safe
and efficient as possible.
Sincerely Yours,
ROBERT MENENDEZ
United States Senator
FRANK R. LAUTENBERG
United States Senator
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