air traffic control

    By Sam Gustin

    | 11:30AM 11/19/2009
    The Federal Aviation Administration suffered a "widespread" computer malfunction Thursday morning, sending key parts of the national air traffic control system haywire and affecting Logan International in Boston, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, and all three major airports in New York. Authorities...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 6:03PM 7/23/2008
    A few months back, Randy Burnham wrote a piece about post-retirement employment; among other things, he noted that the incredible attrition rate among air traffic controllers was leading to huge bonuses and massively inflated incomes. He suggested that retirees looking to begin the next stage of...