Regulations and Government
Controllers, FAA To Ink New Pact
New FAA Administrator Marion Blakey apparently wants to continue the cooperative relationship with the nation’s air traffic controllers that was fostered b

New FAA Administrator Marion Blakey apparently wants to continue the cooperative relationship with the nation’s air traffic controllers that was fostered by her predecessor.

Despite some turbulence over whether or not the Bush Administration plans some sort of privatization of the ATC system, the FAA has agreed to a two-year extension of its contract with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca). The existing five-year contract with the union, signed by former FAA Administrator Jane Garvey in 1998, now will run until 2005.