President Trump on Thursday announced that his administration planned to replace the technology and build six new coordination centers on the traffic control sites across the country. Mr Trump called at a press conference that transport secretary Shan Duffy was to unveil a new aircraft traffic control system.
Mr. Trump said, “Basically decades later – and we’re taking almost a long time ago – reliable service, air traffic control is not really no overhall for remaking,” “It will be raised as a modern value.”
The President also said that he is confident that the current system remains “extremely safe” before the summer travel season.
Mr. Trump said his administration was working to replace the technology on more than 4,600 air traffic control sites and build six new aircraft traffic coordination centers. The President also said that the government planned to buy 25,000 new radio, replace hundreds of radar and establish 4,000 new high-speed network connections.
This announcement has come up as a New Jersey’s Neck International Airport, continues to deal with a follow -up barrier Outage last weekThe
Air Traffic Controllers are operating flights to Newark Liberty International Airport Lost contact And their screen is blank for about 90 seconds on April 28.
“We don’t have a radar, so I don’t know where you are,” a controller was heard saying in a recorded infection.
The Federal Aviation Administration says that the conflict lasted about 30 seconds and the planes took another 30-60 seconds to appear again on the screen.
Several controllers went Leave trauma In the context of the outage, which is seen due to the fried copper cable at least some parts. There have also been more than 4,000 delays and out of the net and more than 1000 canceled.
In an interview before Duffi’s announcement, the CEO of Delta Air Line told CBS News that he fully supported the air traffic control system.
“I’m not saying that the terms of the work are acceptable, and I think the controllers do an amazing thing in management,” Bastian “CBS said in an interview on Sunday morning.
Bastian said it was safe to get on the plane, but he also said that the air traffic control system could not work for longer in its current size.
“All we need is an important investment in our government in modernization of Air Traffic Control, which I know this administration and I know is committed to the transport secretary,” Bastian said.
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