NATCA must use all avenues to review and update the traffic complexity formulas and ensure they are applied to all facilities. This must include automation to the counting process and evaluating complexity factors due to facility consolidations and new entrants in the NAS.

Rationale: Appendix A of the 2016 CBA was agreed to in a time when technology limited the ability to accurately and routinely count traffic. Complexity factors have changed greatly in recent years and now can be reliably counted. When the Agency engages us to negotiate any changes to our traffic counting process, we cannot miss the opportunity to secure appropriate pay levels for all facilities based on their actual traffic volume and complexity. Additionally, many changes have occurred in the NAS since appendix A was written. 804 consolidations have created an entirely new type of facility with complexities that were not considered in the complexity formulas. We also have new entrants in the NAS, new technologies, and new streams of data we are responsible to manage daily.