Abstract
This chapter focuses on the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization's (PATCO) nationwide strike that unfolded in August 1981 in every state and territory and stretched across the Atlantic. It examines the impact of the strike on air travel, the economy, and the labor movement. It also considers the strike's effect on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) contingency plan, which included hiring and training hundreds of new air traffic controllers in short order, as well as the role played by airlines, airline pilots, and foreign air traffic controllers in the strike. Finally, the chapter discusses the PATCO strikers' back-channel negotiations and the end of the strike.
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