Brazil: Flight Delays to Last Until 2007

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | November 20th, 2006 | Trackback

Following the Sept. 29 mid-air collision of two planes that killed 154 people, Brazil’s air traffic controllers began a campaign Nov. 1 to protest working conditions. The increase in air traffic in recent years has outstripped the hiring of new controllers, so the system is running at only half capacity. Since Nov. 1, controllers have refused to handle more than their legal limit of flights and have been strictly observing times between takeoffs and landings, producing delays at times in almost half of all flights around the country. Officials expect such delays to continue well into 2007 as new air traffic controllers are hired and trained.

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