The agency sought to lessen the logjam by encouraging airlines to fly fewer planes.
by pressing airlines to reduce the thousands of canceled flights that were tormenting passengers during almost every holiday.
Congress is moving to pass the FAA Reauthorization Act — legislation that would lay the groundwork for FAA’s long-term agenda to modernize the aviation sector – ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.as we discuss what will make it into the final bill, what could get dropped, the reaction of key stakeholders and how reauthorization will reshape FAA’s priorities and authorities.
“The staffing levels there are not at the level I want to see there,” Buttigieg said on CNN. “They don’t leave us with a lot of cushion. If you have a few people call in sick or if you have an unusual event, it really spreads the system thin.”that “with the exception of United,” airlines had returned to a “more typical cancellation/delay rate.” As of Thursday afternoon, United flights accounted for about 84 percent of those canceled across the country, according to FlightAware.
Airlines and Republicans aren’t the only ones pointing fingers at the FAA, an agency that hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed leader for over a year. In a scathing report released June 23,ripped the agency’s air traffic controller staffing as inadequate, and suggested that the FAA has no real plan in place to fix the problem.
Buttigieg and the FAA have repeatedly said they plan to hire 1,500 air traffic controllers this year and want Congress to fund 1,800 controller hires next year. But fully training controllers takes years, and many drop out.“There’s no short-term fix because hiring and fully training a controller takes three to five years,” said former National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Paul Rinaldi.
“I think Congress is addressing a lot of the issues when it comes to the staffing,” Rinaldi said. But he added, “The problem is those studies take years.”
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