NATCA Update

Presidents Day, officially called Washington’s Birthday, is a U.S. federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Increasingly, the holiday has become an […]

The Information Technology Committee (ITC) continues work on building MyNATCA, the replacement membership database. The committee is now in the process of migrating email mailing lists and grievances into the new system and is working with […]

The joint Department of Defense (DoD)/FAA effort to optimize the scheduling and activation/deactivation of special activity airspace (SAA) began earlier this month. The core team is co-led by a DoD and FAA representative from the Mission […]

NATCA’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Committee recently met and created a training and outreach plan for the committee and NATCA representatives for 2022. The committee now has topics that it will cover each month as […]

Executive Vice President Andrew LeBovidge participated on The Future Aviation Environment panel during the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) virtual annual conference on Feb. 9 and spoke of the opportunities as well as the challenges of […]

Last week, NATCA President Rich Santa held separate phone calls with House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Sam Graves, R-Mo.  During Santa’s call with Chairman DeFazio, he thanked DeFazio for […]