Recently in the news, there has been a lot of talk about air traffic controllers not doing their jobs properly. There have been reports of them falling asleep on the job, as well as watching movies while they are supposed to be working. First Lady Michelle Obama was on one of these flights, and her plane had to abort its landing and circle around to make a landing. A different air traffic controller was fired for bringing a cot and pillow to work. Are the air traffic controllers to blame, or is it their schedulers? Are they working too many hours? How should we fix this problem?
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I think the air traffic controllers should take most of the blame; however, there obviously is a problem if so many of them have been exhausted and falling asleep on the job. They must be working too many hours; much more than they can handle. I think the problem can be fixed by scheduling either shorter shifts or less shifts in a row.
I agree with Christina in the air traffic controllers shifts should be shorter. The traffic controllers do not need to work too many hours. However, they need to be punished or take responsibility for their actions.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Christina. Obviously the shifts these air traffic controllers are working are too much to handle. They should hire more people so people can have shorter shifts. This would also be good for the unemployment currently affecting the U.S.
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