SAN CARLOS — The Federal Aviation Administration introduced Friday that air site visitors controllers below a earlier contract will proceed offering service at San Carlos Airport for 60 days, simply someday earlier than a brand new supplier was supposed to start out staffing the tower.
San Carlos Airport is the one common aviation airport within the Bay Space with a contracted tower employees, stated Alessandro Franco, proprietor of the San Carlos Flight Heart flight faculty.
There are 21 common aviation airports with a contracted tower employees; others embrace Redding, Sacramento Govt and Chico. The tower was beforehand staffed by Serco, an organization that gives air navigation companies, together with air site visitors management for small regional airports.
The FAA introduced Thursday that their contract with Serco was ending on Friday they usually had awarded a brand new contract to Robinson Aviation, an organization that makes a speciality of air site visitors management. Nevertheless, their controllers rejected their job provides after the corporate refused to regulate their pay to account for larger residing prices within the Bay Space.
Robinson Aviation was initially supposed to start out staffing the tower on Feb. 1. The corporate referred to as in controllers from different elements of the nation to employees the tower by Saturday, stated San Carlos Airport spokesperson Davi Howard.
The staffing points raised issues for aviation lovers. Franco stated that an unmanned tower at San Carlos Airport could be a trigger for concern attributable to site visitors within the space between smaller planes taking off from the overall aviation airport and industrial airways coming into San Francisco Worldwide Airport.
