United Airlines says it got screwed by the government. The government says United screwed itself.
Lizzie O’Leary earlier this year, the FAA’s focus on developing “next-generation air mobility systems”—think-style flying taxis—may have led the agency to neglect urgent fixes to its currently operational tech. And yes, the FAA is way understaffed: As the National Air Traffic Controllers Association president testified to Congress in March, the number ofhas shrunk by 10 percent over the past decade, leaving urgent gaps as travel demand resurges.
by the debt ceiling negotiations. Anyhow, even if the FAA were suddenly blessed with a hiring surge, it would take years to train those folks and get air-traffic networks back to pre-pandemic functionality.
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