Banquet Presentation
AOPA ASI Awards
Here is the Archie League Medal of Safety Awards book that has the stories of all of this
year's winning flight assists.
STAT OF THE WEEK
104,171,935
Total number of passengers (enplaning and deplaning) that traveled throug h ATL in
2016, making it again the world's busiest airport by passenger total. LAX was fourth,
ORD sixth, DFW 11
th
, JFK 16
th
, and Denver 18
th
.
BEST NEW FEATURE OF THE NATCA WEBSITE
All Contracts, One New Place!
We worked with the Labor Relations Departmen t to put together our new contracts
section on the members side of natca.org . Collective bargaining agreements, related
memorandums of understanding and other contract materials covering each of our FAA,
FCT, a nd DOD bargaining units are now located in one place . All PDFs are searchable
for ease of use. Click here .
Need help logging in to the members side of natca.org ? Click here .
THE ATC REFORM / STABLE FUNDING STREAM ISSUE
We submitted a letter to the editor to The Wall Street Journal last week, responding to
an editorial about ATC reform that mischaracterized NATCA's position. The te x t of the
letter:
To the Editor:
Contrary to a claim in your recent editorial ("Major Trump to Ground Control," March 22),
the National Air Traffic Controlle rs Association has not and will not take a position on air
traffic control reform until we see what any legislative proposal entails.
For NATCA to consider supporting any reform proposal, it must meet the core principles
that we have used to evaluate oth er such proposals. These include protecting the
workforce's rights and benefits; ensuring that safety and efficiency remain the top
priorities; providing a stable, predictable funding stream that adequately supports air
traffic control services, staffing, hiring and training, long - term modernization,
preventative maintenance, and ongoing modernization of the physical infrastructure; and
maintaining service to all segments of America's diverse aviation community. We will
oppose any proposal that would instit ute a for - profit system. NATCA supported the
proposal advanced in 2016 because it met these core principles.
I am encouraged that a discussion on the future of aviation and air traffic control is a
national priority. NATCA wants the United States to rem ain the gold standard for aviation.
American air traffic controllers should have the best equipment.
NATCA will continue be a part of the solution to the problems caused by the unstable,
unpredictable funding stream that has existed recently for air traf fic control. We will
