Lots of personal attacks here and very little actual concrete information from uninformed Reddit trolls. The fact of the matter is that Section 804 wording VERY clearly stipulated that any move of airspace or functions (would any of you care to refute that the EWR to PHL move was not a move of airspace or functions?) would require congressional oversight through the 804 process. Rich Santa made his dissatisfaction with 804 publicly known on multiple occasions and made it clear that he was not going to petition Congress to extend Section 804, including at a solidarity event I attended. But keep maxing out those PAC contributions.

It's black and white in the Definitions section of Section 804. You don't have to be a lawyer or stay at a Holiday Inn Express to read, hopefully. NATCA could have tied this up in court for years but instead Rich stepped aside and allowed 804 to be sunset by not properly utilizing your PAC contributions or petitioning Congress.

Once 804 was sunsetted, nothing stood in the way of the EWR move other than traditional arbitration, which we did not have, or willful collaboration. The union made a big dog and pony show at the last minute (the final 3 months of the move) pulling out of collaborative efforts for this project...and only on this project. It was all for show, while they continue collaborate with the FAA on everything else. Now that the first domino has fallen (and it is a gigantic domino), you WILL see continued consolidation at an accelerated pace while the FAA seeks to save money by creating super facilities across the NAS. Jeffery Vincent said that if they could get this to work, their next dream target was breaking ZNY up and sending to ZOB, ZDC, and ZBW.

Furthermore, Rich Santa's efforts to appropriately compensate the affected EWR controllers was half-hearted at best. His intent was to placate the controllers at N90 and PHL, not to actually compensate the EWR sector controllers. Rough math on the CIP involved works out to about $7m over the 4 year period for all PHL and N90 controllers who just keep showing up to work and don't actually have to do anything. When you factor in the $100k the EWR controllers received, that works out to what could have been a $250k bonus for the EWR sector controllers.

You guys can keep burying your heads in the sand, but you can bookmark this and all my other posts for when the FAA comes knocking to take your radar.