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FAA Flight Service Specialists File Suit against Agency

By Laura Strickler

Buffalo, NY – Flight service specialists like those who work in Buffalo provide weather information for small aircraft 24 hours a day. But they could soon be out of a job. The Federal Aviation Administration is consolidating its national flight weather service system and contracting the service out to Lockheed Martin. Late last week, the workers gathered in Washington where they accused the FAA of age discrimination.

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