| ▲ | riffraff 19 hours ago | |
This is not news, there was an episode of Last Week Tonight on the Air Traffic Control crisis last summer[0]. From memory: on the human side airports are understaffed, there are no young controllers in the pipeline, attrition is high, and the less people are available the higher the burnout rate, which creates a vicious cycle. On the technical side, airports are unmaintained, systems are obsolete and crumbling. John Oliver makes the case that most of the issue is that the FAA is financed through discretionary spending so e.g. it's subject to shut downs and can't do long term planning. | ||