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Originally Posted by citrus_defender  |
What we are seeing is the Bush FAA is starting to crumble, if was never an **IF** ... it has always been a **WHEN**.
I don't claim that NATCA or controllers are perfect or have the correct answer or solution to everything, what I have experienced throughout my career has been a give and take on both sides and the results have been good. The Blakey / Bush FAA promoted the biggest loser's and zero's into newly created management positions inside the new ATO. This has been a debacle of monumental proportions. Forget the front line supervisors, they can't go to the bathroom without approval, even the facility managers can't make a decision on their own, everything goes up the chain of command and then covered up like I have never seen before. Add to this a pay for performance and bonus system where a facility manager is graded based on two things, low OE's and low OT spending... those two things and your a great manager. The work rules were the final piece, take everything away from the controllers. Great... in less then 2 short years the entire system is failing around them and congress knows it...
This is what has given you D10, the inspection debacle, and numerous other things the public is not privy to, the walls of the FAA are crumbling fast. Based on people's response to FAA reauthorization and user fees in the general section on this board many people are skeptical of supporting the measure but FAA reauthorization passing will be a huge step to cleaning house in the FAA. While the bill still has many hurdles the passage of that bill invalidates many so called "managers" in the FAA and in turn will be the beginning of their departures and hopefully a return to a better agency as a whole.
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