Air Traffic Controllers on strike in Costa Rica/ Safety Hazards
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Air Traffic Controllers on strike in Costa Rica/ Safety Hazards
June 30th, Tico Times:
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Controladores extranjeros devengan $150 diarios (La Prensa-- Costa Rica) (as an aside and a bit of Panama Jack humor
, it looks like the controller in the picture is running the same program I have for burning CD's-- a cottage industry in Central America). 
La Prensa (Nicaragua)
Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike
Continues, Safety Questioned
The country’s air traffic controllers, on strike since Saturday demanding higher salaries they say were agreed to in 1994, yesterday denounced what they said is the poor work of the foreigners brought in to replace them in the control towers.
Although government officials insist the skies are safe, the striking controllers allege incidents have occurred in several airports that suggest otherwise.
“There have been some very serious cases (in the airports). Nothing is normal or safe,” said the spokesman for the Air Traffic Controllers’ Union, Leonardo Guillén.
For example, he said, commercial pilot Carlos Zamora filed a written complaint with aeronautical authorities saying that he was 150 feet from colliding with a Cessna Monday in the Quepos airport on the central Pacific coast.
Yesterday, the Channel 7 television news program played recorded conversations between pilots and the foreign traffic controllers in which there were disagreements.
Since the nearly 100 Costa Rican controllers began the strike last weekend, 28 interim foreign controllers provided by the Central America Navigation Agency have kept the country’s airports operating normally, save a several-hour disruption Saturday after the strike began.
Alvaro Durán, of the Department of Civil Aviation’s Technical Security Committee, said the reduced number of controllers does not allow the airports to continue normal radar operations, but that should not slow down airline service or make it any less safe. He likened the change to switching from “a computer to a word processor.”
Labor Minister Ovidio Pacheco said Costa Rica’s Labor Code stipulates that employees of public transportation agencies must negotiate before announcing a strike – something he said the controllers did not do (TT Daily Page, June 29).
Yesterday, Labor Ministry representatives requested that judges in the cities nearest the country’s major airports officially declare the strike illegal.
Javier Chaves, Minister of Public Works and Transportation, said the government is prepared to negotiate with the controllers. However, he said, the controllers broke off negotiations because they want more money than what they are owed.
--AFP
Continues, Safety Questioned
The country’s air traffic controllers, on strike since Saturday demanding higher salaries they say were agreed to in 1994, yesterday denounced what they said is the poor work of the foreigners brought in to replace them in the control towers.
Although government officials insist the skies are safe, the striking controllers allege incidents have occurred in several airports that suggest otherwise.
“There have been some very serious cases (in the airports). Nothing is normal or safe,” said the spokesman for the Air Traffic Controllers’ Union, Leonardo Guillén.
For example, he said, commercial pilot Carlos Zamora filed a written complaint with aeronautical authorities saying that he was 150 feet from colliding with a Cessna Monday in the Quepos airport on the central Pacific coast.
Yesterday, the Channel 7 television news program played recorded conversations between pilots and the foreign traffic controllers in which there were disagreements.
Since the nearly 100 Costa Rican controllers began the strike last weekend, 28 interim foreign controllers provided by the Central America Navigation Agency have kept the country’s airports operating normally, save a several-hour disruption Saturday after the strike began.
Alvaro Durán, of the Department of Civil Aviation’s Technical Security Committee, said the reduced number of controllers does not allow the airports to continue normal radar operations, but that should not slow down airline service or make it any less safe. He likened the change to switching from “a computer to a word processor.”
Labor Minister Ovidio Pacheco said Costa Rica’s Labor Code stipulates that employees of public transportation agencies must negotiate before announcing a strike – something he said the controllers did not do (TT Daily Page, June 29).
Yesterday, Labor Ministry representatives requested that judges in the cities nearest the country’s major airports officially declare the strike illegal.
Javier Chaves, Minister of Public Works and Transportation, said the government is prepared to negotiate with the controllers. However, he said, the controllers broke off negotiations because they want more money than what they are owed.
--AFP
Controladores extranjeros devengan $150 diarios (La Prensa-- Costa Rica) (as an aside and a bit of Panama Jack humor
, it looks like the controller in the picture is running the same program I have for burning CD's-- a cottage industry in Central America). La Prensa (Nicaragua)
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They do not need ATC
Remember you said you wanna stories....
Alvaro Duran "EX TACA soon to be back in TACA after is done as is always done" director, still, on the CAA... Do I need to say anything more.
Quepos is an Uncontroll airport if he was 150 feet from crashing is cuz he did not look.
Incidents happend ALL THE TIME( tends to happend when people fly VFR in IMC" like the dude that flew the plane against the volacano.... he was VFR..... right? but he was an "EXCELENT PILOT" like everyone in CR said...
TODA UNA FALCIA
Like once told the head of ATC how hard is to manage in a airport with one runway(wich the planes have to back taxi cuz the taxiway does not go to the end) and is place in the bottom of a canyon......
TRUE is that they probably get pay !!!!! but body what kind of job are you really doing? I can do it with radio only and no transponder.
If I am a bit harss is cuz I saw with my own eyes how they operate there......... priority for TACA-SANSA to the point of deviating other planes........
HUM I wonder if the free rides to Miami are on the barganing table too
LMAO
Alvaro Duran "EX TACA soon to be back in TACA after is done as is always done" director, still, on the CAA... Do I need to say anything more.
Quepos is an Uncontroll airport if he was 150 feet from crashing is cuz he did not look.
Incidents happend ALL THE TIME( tends to happend when people fly VFR in IMC" like the dude that flew the plane against the volacano.... he was VFR..... right? but he was an "EXCELENT PILOT" like everyone in CR said...
TODA UNA FALCIA
Like once told the head of ATC how hard is to manage in a airport with one runway(wich the planes have to back taxi cuz the taxiway does not go to the end) and is place in the bottom of a canyon......
TRUE is that they probably get pay !!!!! but body what kind of job are you really doing? I can do it with radio only and no transponder.
If I am a bit harss is cuz I saw with my own eyes how they operate there......... priority for TACA-SANSA to the point of deviating other planes........
HUM I wonder if the free rides to Miami are on the barganing table too
LMAO
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Yes, Taca is running the strings on the governments in Central America, and the strike in Costa Rica is not an exemption. They do whatever they want with out caring for safety.
But show some respect for the dead "come mierda". No need to mention that accident in that manner. Watch it, or at least write your name down.
Yes, Taca is running the strings on the governments in Central America, and the strike in Costa Rica is not an exemption. They do whatever they want with out caring for safety.
But show some respect for the dead "come mierda". No need to mention that accident in that manner. Watch it, or at least write your name down.
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I know You TICOS are very "sensitive" but I only spoken the truth haven't I, so relax "MAX"on the pissing contest.
And you want my name? PM me
PS: I love threats specialy empty ones I am Thousands of miles away
And you want my name? PM me
PS: I love threats specialy empty ones I am Thousands of miles away
