"The solution is to incentivize (or mandate) airlines to real-time manage their own day-of-flight 4D trajectories, system optimize aircraft flow, sequencing and spacing to their own business rules, using their own realtime information about their own resource statuses,"
What do these buildings full of meteorologists, computers and dispatchers who file flight plans and flight follow do? TR ---------------------------------------- *From: *RWM--- via Mifnet <[email protected]> *To: *[email protected] *CC: *[email protected] <[email protected]> *Date: *2026-05-18T00:56:41Z *Subject: *[Mifnet 🛰 76202] Re: FAA wants to reduce the number of required air traffic controllers > Short version… if anyone thinks that is a good idea, now or in the future. > > The root cause problem and opportunity to improve ‘ATC’ system performance > and airport throughput, effectively expanding capacity, is by _preventing > _unmanaged, self-induced congestion, rather than forcing ATC to _fix_ > unmanaged, self-induced congestion, requiring more controllers to issue > vectors, reroutes, and delays to more flights. > > >  > > > Addressing the root cause of random congestion reduces the need for ATC > intervention, infrastructure, and controller workload, while capturing and > allowing utilization of latent system capacity. Also improves customer, > investor, employee and national economic outcomes. > > >  > > > The solution is for FAA to incentivize (or mandate) airlines to real-time > manage their own day-of-flight 4D trajectories, system optimize aircraft > flows, sequencing and spacing to their own business rules, using their own > realtime information about their own resource statuses, which has been > possible for decades. > Allow ATC to real-time broker multiple carrier system optima to generate a > global system optimum, passing edited carrier optima back for ACARS > communication to flight decks. Possible and commercialized for more than a > decade. > > >  > > > If these facilities had never been demonstrated and independently validated > as producing meaningful on-time improvements and flying time (capital and > operating expense) reduction benefits — including in FAA-funded, brokered > multi-carrier trials — one might say ‘pie in the sky, computationally > unscalable’. The reality is the facilities are commercially available, and > are on the shelf for rapid deployment. > > >  > > > Unfortunately, based on the published documentation as well as statements by > FAA/DOT, the vaunted $30+ billion BNATCS addresses none of this. > Ten years and way more than $30 billion from now, nothing will have changed > except for more flights, more delays, the need for more controller > intervention, and airlines will still be fixated on a familiar topic, more > finger-pointing. > - Bob Mann > >> On May 17, 2026, at 20:35, Robert Mark via Mifnet <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>  >> I'm curious what you think about the FAA's new move to reduce overtime. >> Interesting timing, no? >> >> Rob Mark >> *FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing* >> >> https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/faa-cuts-target-air-traffic-control-staffing-2026-05-15/ >> >> * >> * >> >> >> Rob Mark, /MRAeS/, & CEO, /CommAvia[http://www.commavia.com]/, /Creators of >> leading-edge media for the aviation industry./ >> 847-644-1575 (mobile) >> 2400 Grant Street >> Evanston, IL 60201 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Revised: 20250507 >> >> You are receiving The Mifnet because you requested to join this list. >> >> The Mifnet is largely a labor of love, however the infrastructure isn't >> exactly cost-free. 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