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Article: FAA to Streamline Air Traffic Control
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 13, 1999
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The Federal Aviation Administration agreed yesterday to take a
series of steps to reduce air traffic control delays that the
airlines contend cost them billions of dollars a year.
In particular, the FAA said it would strengthen the decision-
making authority of the FAA Command Center in Herndon, allowing it to
assert more authority over various air traffic control centers around
the country.
The problem, according to the airlines, centers on the air traffic
control systems' inability to make decisions quickly about the flow
of airline traffic in bad weather or during abnormal circumstances
generally.