Au nom de la « fiscal cliff » et de la lutte contre le déficit budgétaire US

Voir

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/26/travel/budget-faa/

et la séquence vidéo sur http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/02/26/exp-bash-forced-cuts.cnn.html

Washington (CNN) — Federal aviation officials are telling airline and airport executives that they are working to minimize any disruption from imminent government budget cuts to passenger airline service, but warn the mandatory belt-tightening will impact air traffic overall.

At a meeting in Washington on Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would give priority to 77 “core” facilities — large airports and their related air traffic control centers, which it did not identify.

But the agency would reduce staffing system wide and would likely close 238 control towers at less busy airports. Those towers handle 5.8 percent of all commercial air traffic, the FAA said.