The Civil Air Operations Officers' Association of Australia (CAOOAA), known as Civil Air, is a trade union in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. It was founded in 1948 and represents over 1100

air traffic controllers Air traffic control specialists, abbreviated ATCS, are personnel responsible for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic in the global air traffic control system. Usually stationed in air traffic control centers and control ...

System Support Officer A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expressed ...

s (SSO),

Flight Data Coordinator Flight Data Coordinators (FDCs) are officers in the Airservices Australia that, along with the Air Traffic Controllers, are the human side of The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS) (pronounc ...

s (FDC) and other support specialists. Civil Air is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and internationally with the

International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA) unites the professional associations of air traffic controllers from around the world. In total, it represents over 130 of such organisations, with a combined membership of ...

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Civil Air
official site. {{Portal, Organized labour Trade unions in Australia Air traffic controllers' trade unions Trade unions established in 1948 1948 establishments in Australia