Today, the CEOs of leading U.S. airlines urged Congress to allocate essential funds to upgrade the outdated U.S. air traffic control system, stating that the existing system is “failing Americans.”
In a letter addressed to the FAA, leaders from American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Alaska Airlines, and Atlas Air united to demand “urgent action” to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration’s technology, which they described as “wildly out of date.”
The CEOs addressed the upcoming summer travel season, starting with the Memorial Day holiday this weekend, as a primary motivation to resolve the issues.
The letter follows United CEO Scott Kirby’s communication to customers regarding failures in Newark on Monday. “United has been very clear and vocal about the need to fix the Air Traffic Control system in EWR…United is committed to doing absolutely everything in our power to minimize the impact that this will have on customers, and so we are unilaterally cancelling 35 roundtrip flights per day from our Newark schedule starting this weekend,” Kirby wrote.
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
