Brazilian air traffic controllers have mounted a slow-down, causing massive delays in domestic travel, as a result of the strain caused by the recent GOL/ExcelAire Legacy midair, Reuters reported. Delays reached five hours for some as well as flight cancellations after 10 air traffic controllers were suspended as the result of the crash and an increase in ATC workload, up 19 percent last year and 20 percent so far this year, according to the Air Traffic Controllers' Association in Brasilia. In Brazil's worst air crash, all 154 people on board a Gol Boeing 737-800 were killed when it went down after clipping wings with the a ExcelAire aircraft, which landed safely. Controllers in Brasilia are limiting their workload to no more than 14 planes at a time, considered an international standard, versus the 20+ at a time in peak hours of their six-hour shifts.
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