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San Carlos, CA -- The Tip of a Looming FAA Iceberg? [1]
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Date: 2025-01-31
This story about a relatively small general aviation airport in California’s Bay Area seems to have slipped under the radar due to the tragic air crash over the Potomac Wednesday night, but it might ultimately prove to be even more important for the future of safe air travel in this country. From the East Bay Times:
An airport on the flight path into San Francisco may lose its air traffic controllers as soon as this weekend following a pay dispute, raising safety concerns on the Peninsula. The general aviation airport is one of a few in the region staffed by controllers contracted by the Federal Aviation Administration but not employed by the agency itself. The administration intended to switch contract providers to Robinson Aviation at the beginning of February, but all of the current controllers declined job offers because the new contract didn’t include additional pay to account for the high cost of living in the Bay Area. … A news release from the county of San Mateo stated that safety remained it’s top priority, and it was in negotiations to resolve the issue without disruptions. San Carlos Airport is under the oversight of the FAA’s Northern California Terminal Radar Approach Control, or NorCal TRACON, which manages air traffic throughout the region.
AlterNet has a rather more alarming perspective on the situation, which goes way beyond a mere “pay dispute”:
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