A resolution to promote the public safety and to prevent deterioration of aviation commerce by urging the President of the United States to take action to make the Nation's air traffic control system fully operational.

Declares the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Department of Transportation has not fully utilized the human resources available to restore the capacity of the air traffic control system; (2) steps should be taken to waive the age-thirty hiring rule; and (3) the processing of appeals of former traffic controllers seeking reinstatement should be expedited.