 The national air-space system contingency planRobert H. Throne Energy, 1983, vol. 8, issue 8, 643-652 Abstract: The National Air Traffic Control Contingency Plan was developed when it appeared that the Federal Aviation Administration might face a national strike by its air traffic controllers. There were two basic objectives associated with the plan: the continued operation of the air traffic control system and the continuance of previous high levels of safety. The contingency plan was developed over a 13-month period, published, and then modified several times before the strike actually occurred. The plan was based on the assumption that all air traffic controllers might support a strike and therefore the system would be operated only by qualified supervisors and facility staff personnel. Individual and system productivity was to be maximized by minimizing the number of air traffic control instructions to be issued to each aircraft. The plan incorporated air traffic procedures, a priority user system, a national airline and air cargo schedule (never implemented, but of strategic importance in gaining acceptance of the total plan), management coordination and communications procedures, and security procedures. To ensure user and private business involvement to the maximum extent possible, a national briefing was conducted in Washington and a draft of the plan was published in the Federal Register. Date: 1983 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:8:y:1983:i:8:p:643-652 DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(83)90034-8 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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