FAA Concerned About Controller Fatigue? Like Big Oil Worried About Gas Prices

Nothing more than another publicity stunt, designed to show an appearance of concern….The FAA holding a symposium on fatigue is like the Big Oil companies holding a symposium on high gas prices. While not a crisis entirely of its own making, the FAA must be held accountable for its failed management and policy decisions and brutally stressful, understaffed and exhausting working conditions that have caused the NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] to add controller fatigue to its list of most important safety concerns.

He says NATCA will participate in this week’s FAA forum, which is designed to address the fatigue problem in the entire aviation industry from air crews to ramp operations to dispatchers to air traffic controllers. But NATCA plans to develop its own “fatigue management system” for air traffic controllers.