The airlines are being constrained by an air-traffic control system that is billions of dollars behind where it needs to be financially and decades behind where it needs to be technologically.
Quotes about air-traffic (8 Quotes)
Our air-traffic group is looking at the decision-making process and how they decided which runway to use and which ones not to use. We are also examining the responses between the pilots and the air-traffic controllers and what they viewed as the conditions of the runway.
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
I wanted to make it feel real, like you were there, so you would understand the pressures people faced inside the air-traffic control rooms, inside the military command center, inside that airplane.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Except for what might be a small handful of countries, things like air-traffic control, airlines and airports are doing pretty well. I don't think we're going to end up with a long list of countries that are extremely dangerous.
This system will support software programs that make available in the cockpit information that today exists only on paper or in the hands of air-traffic controllers. Ultimately, it will help pilots with navigation and allow them to space their aircraft on their own, call up the most complete and accurate long-range weather maps, warn of potential collisions on the ground, push the maintenance logbook into the digital age and place the entire flight manual within easy electronic recall.
There were pretty strong winds, so the FAA instituted ground delays, which slowed down the entire air-traffic control system for New York, Boston, Washington, D. C., and so forth. Because of that, we are running behind. The good news is ... we have enough seats on the average flight to put people onto other flights and thin the schedule.