Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110415:00:53:00
Years. it's not unusual to us. >> i worked weird shifts and especially if you work a night shift and work a day shift and, yeah, you've got eight or nine hours off in between, it's hard to go right home and hit the bed and go to sleep for seven or eight hours and that's what a lot of air traffic controllers are being asked to do. if they really can't handle -- and that's what you're saying -- an intense workload day to day, then why aren't we doing shorter shifts with more people? >> well, first of all, this, again, has been an ongoing problem and we have been addressing the issue. controllers...