Earlier this summer an anonymous air-traffic controller filing a report to Chirp, the industry's confidential whistle-blowing agency, claimed that pilots of low-cost airlines were cutting corners to achieve flight timetables.
The point of the game is simple: you are an air-traffic controller and your job is to land planes.
He can see her reflection in the bathroom mirror, the headset wrapped around her ear as if she were an air-traffic controller or a Secret Service agent.
For this story of semi-anonymous group heroism, he uses actual professionals (pilots, flight attendants, an air-traffic controller) mixed in with largely unknown actors, and avoids visual or verbal rhetoric.
Coached by an off-duty air-traffic controller who requested pretournament tips from, he said, his close friend Jose Mourinho, Cape Verde's team, also known as the Blue Sharks, has lighted up the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Senate legislation, crafted by lawmakers in both parties, would give the Transportation Department, which administers the Federal Aviation Administration, more budget flexibility to reduce the number of air-traffic controller furloughs, which had caused this week's flight delays.
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Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate approved a measure on Thursday aimed at ending budget-related air traffic controller furloughs that have been blamed for widespread flight delays this week.
His first deployment, as a forward air controller in 2007-2008, was cut short after 10 weeks when details of his whereabouts were disclosed in the media.
John Hoover, a 56-year old former air traffic controller from Avon, Ind.
The controller looked like a window-mounted air conditioner and could be programmed to run machines in different sequences without rewiring all those cabinets, a huge time-saver.
But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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Europe also has controller-pilot text messaging in use at two air-traffic control centers, and should have its system fully implemented by 2015.
"We're working together to make sure safety is not going to be affected, but unfortunately, you might want to buy 'War and Peace' before you get on your next flight, " said Miami controller Jim Marinitti, a representative of the National Air-Traffic Controllers Association, the union representing all FAA controllers.
Holding a controller in each hand, players throw punches into the air to control the on-screen action.
One of the biggest challenges -- and ironies -- of his dual career is that the football federation's limited coffers mean the air traffic controller has been unable to fly to Europe to watch those expatriate players who have come on board for Cape Verde's continental mission.
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Furloughs of air traffic controller beginning Sunday could result in long flight delays in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York-area airports.
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