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Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 11
Situational Awareness; Workload; Troubleshooting; Distraction; Confusion; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Company Policy; Human Factors; Procedure; Weather
Severe weather; aircraft were deviating around; we had weather corridors over active military airspace in order to allow us to keep aircraft out of the weather. ZLA Supervisor called and said that he needed to restrict LAS arrivals below FL280 so ZLC controllers would be forced to choose a different route so that ZLA had more time to descend aircraft into LAS.I cannot believe how messed up this thinking is! The weather was severe and aircraft at all altitudes were not flying on the normal routes. The Supervisor was trying to force us to put the aircraft in a dangerous situation; or put the controllers in a compromised situation where we would have had an airspace deviation in order to make things a little easier for his controllers.A safe solution would have been for flow control to reroute aircraft around sectors 44 and 46 since they were unable to fly the routes and it put their controllers in a more difficult situation. That would be a far better decision and safety would not have been compromised; however; we are just little old ZLC and I've been told by our Traffic Management that our needs are secondary to other 'bigger' facilities.
ZLC Controller reports of deviations due to severe weather. Front-Line Manager from another center requested Controller's change routes of aircraft inbound to LAS. The ZLC Controller felt as though he was being forced to put aircraft into compromising situations where they might end up with airspace deviations. Reporter thought it would have been better if the Traffic Management Unit re-routed aircraft around the sector.