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12/28/00 Peninsula airport controller will get more training
12/16/00 Air travelers beset by new vexation: early arrivals
12/16/00 Congestion headache at Hartsfield
12/26/00 Personal jets jamming high-country airports
12/24/00 The Biggest Bottleneck
12/23/00 Air Traffic Control Needs a Lift
12/21/00 Officials claim Miami airport radar reliable despite recent outages
12/20/00 FAA Delayed Plan to reduce errors
12/20/00 Privatize country's airspace? Think again
12/20/00 More radar trouble causes late flights
12/20/00 New radar installation under way at Palm Springs airport
12/20/00 Midair Incursions: Air Traffic Control Errors on the Rise
12/19/00 Supervisor's decision not to pay overtime Saturday shut down the radar system at Miami International
12/19/00 Airport runways become more hazardous
12/18/00 S. Florida radar failed for 2-plus hours over weekend
12/17/00 MIA activity screeches to a halt after radar systems shut down
12/17/00 Late Expectations
12/16/00 FAA reviews 2 near collisions at MIA
12/11/00 FAA managers pan effort to put controllers in charge
12/08/00 Sky has it's limits (Opinion)
12/08/00 Clinton Announces Steps to Battle Flight Delays
12/08/00 Air traffic control reassigned
12/08/00 Clinton Order Spins Off Air Traffic Control
12/08/00 Clinton takes measures to ease air travel delays
12/07/00 Remarks of the President in Faa Announcement
12/07/00 Executive Order: Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization
12/07/00 White House Report on Air Traffic Control Reform
12/07/00 Fact Sheet: President Clinton Announces Actions to Improve Air Travel for American Consumers
12/02/00 Rise in Runway Incidents
12/02/00 American Drops Lawsuits Against FAA
12/01/00 Runaway plane guided to safety
11/30/00 FAA clarifies pilot hours; industry warns of delays
11/30/00 Fewer New Flights at LaGuardia
11/30/00 Flight-Data Rules Sought
11/29/00 Controllers tried to warn pilot just seconds before fatal crash
11/28/00 Plane makes emergency landing on San Jose highway
11/28/00 MCO ARTS Failure
11/22/00 ATC Is Not The Problem
11/22/00 Supervisors to Ask FAA for Air Traffic Study
11/12/00 The FAA's Flight Plan
11/09/00 La Guardia limits flights to 75 an hour to cut delays
11/05/00 Death on the runway
11/05/00 President must fix airlines' turbulence
11/04/00 Runway Systems Tested
11/02/00 FAA to keep its eyes on airport
11/02/00 La Guardia Leads in Delay List
11/02/00 Delayed flights cleared after Outage caused backups
11/01/00 FAA Probing Near Miss during power outage
11/01/00 U.S. flight delays continue into autumn
11/01/00 Airport to receive new money for runway expansions
11/01/00 Power outage cancels flights
11/01/00 Indianapolis' regional air traffic control center loses power
11/01/00 Midwest Skies Go Silent
10/30/00 Runways, taxiways get high marks for safety from new FAA official
10/30/00 FAA launches concerns about building heights
10/26/00 New plan to boost airport safety
10/26/00 Is it time to deregulate the ground end of travel?
10/25/00 CVG Airport wrestles with runway danger
10/25/00 Leesburg Fl OK's tower for airport
10/25/00 38 Year Old Time Capsule Opened at Miami Center
10/24/00 FAA Computer Failure Delays Flights in Northern California and Nevada
10/24/00 Bay Area Air Traffic Disrupted Flights grounded after radar broke down
10/23/00 Jackson gets money for radar study
10/20/00 Busiest airports need to solve flight delays
10/19/00 Air Traffic Control Glitch Causes Gridlock
09/27/00 Air Traffic Control Said Vulnerable to Hackers
09/25/00 More radar coverage needed for Gulf air traffic, officials say
09/25/00 HARTSFIELD CITY LIMITS: Airport manager urges end to finger-pointing about delays
09/25/00 Air traffic controller retrained after runway mishap
09/24/00 PUSHING TIN: The statistics speak volumes: fewer than 600 alerts at McCarran International Airport
09/23/00 August airline delays rose by thousands, FAA numbers show
09/17/00 Reducing flight delays no easy task
09/12/00 FAA honors Teterboro tower for efficiency
09/09/00 Orlando's airport rarely keeps passengers sitting around at gate
09/05/00 Summer travel ends, but air delays won't
09/04/00 Airlines flying lower to speed flights
09/03/00 Air-traffic gridlock looming
08/30/00 FAA shifts blame to pilot in runway incident
08/28/00 CD provides peek inside air traffic control
08/26/00 Airline names air traffic controller in legal filings
08/25/00 Continental has 2 rough landings at Newark
08/24/00 Jet turns into a stick-in-the-mud
08/22/00 Despite tower program subsidy, some supervisors say facility costs too much
08/22/00 Flight delay summit takes off
08/20/00 U.S. Air Traffic Problem Is No Easy Fix
08/18/00 Miami-Havana Air Traffic Hits Record High
08/17/00 Airline summit called in D.C.
08/16/00 Computer malfunction delays flights in Bay area airports
08/15/00 FAA releases $31 million in grants for Lambert expansion
08/15/00 FAA’s new Merrimack facility set for takeoff
08/13/00 Frustrations at the gate
08/13/00 Adding Hours on the Ground to Hours in the Sky
08/11/00 Hilton Head Airport wants control tower
08/10/00 Problems Persist With Flight Delays
08/09/00 At least 10 die as planes collide over New Jersey
08/09/00 FAA may fund new control tower at Forbes Field
08/06/00 Controller Helps Make Skies Friendly for Pilots
08/02/00 Path cleared for airline to sue FAA in Flight 1420 crash
8/4/00 FAA Probes Close Call Over NY
8/4/00 Air traffic vets celebrate terminal
8/4/00 Long, frequent flight delays create air of discontent
07/29/00 ABCNEWS.com : 20/20: Runway Incursions on the Rise
7/29/00 Airlines blame outdated traffic control for delays
07/25/00 Senators Mull Blame in Flight Delays
07/20/00 Controller Suspended
07/20/00 ABCNEWS.com : Accident Averted at Runway Incursion
7/02/00 Radar proposal picking up opposition
04/12/00 ABCNEWS.com : 20/20: Airlines Often Aware of Flight Delays
7/24-29/99 Errors in the Sky: The fine line between safety and disater
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